You know when your baby is happy because they coo at you. When your baby is unhappy, they let you know with a loud wail. You may have even noticed that your baby’s cry sounds different from time to ...

Infant-directed speech - often referred to as baby talk - helps infants learn the sounds of their language. The post Baby ...

S ome people refuse to use baby talk with babies. The sing-song repetition of cute nonsense words commonly spoken by adults ...

Not knowing what your baby wants or needs can be incredibly overwhelming. Here’s how you can learn their language. It’s 2 a.m., and you’ve been pacing up and down the hallway for what feels like hours ...

Guillaume Thierry is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the NAWA Chair Programme (PPN/PRO/2020/1/00006) and he is also affiliated with the Faculty of English at ...

We all use baby talk when we babble with bundles of joy, but does how we talk to infants vary across cultures? The answer seems to be yes and no. “Some cultures talk more or less to babies, some not ...