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People use different forms of speech when speaking to infants and dogs, called "Motherese" and "Doggerel."
Before I even turned to look at her, I knew that she was speaking to either a baby or a dog. When I did look in her direction, I saw that she was holding a cream-coloured Pomeranian to whom this outpouring of affection was directed. So natural is this impulse to change one’s voice and speech patterns when addressing babies, puppies, or dogs that she probably didn't even realize that her speech patterns had veered from"normal.
Back in the 1980s, psychologists Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Rebecca Treiman were able to show that the language that we use when we are talking to dogs is very similar to Motherese. Technically it should be called"dog-directed speech"; instead, however, they playfully labeled this form of language"Doggerel."attention
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