Videos of caregivers chatting with babies as if they’re adults are going viral and sparking conversation. Instead of relying on traditional “baby talk,” some parents are choosing to speak to their ...

Imagine you’re strolling through a park and you overhear a middle-aged couple cooing over each other, doting over their “wittle sugar pwum” and “baby doll.” “Ewwww,” you might reflexively think. Baby ...

An expert weighs in on why baby talk is beneficial for your little ones — and when it's best to ditch it. When a baby is around, grown-ups will often morph into big babies themselves, making silly ...

LOS ANGELES — Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study released Tuesday by UCLA’s Language ...

When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

New device measures whether you're speaking enough words a day to your baby. April 22, 2008 — -- Parents worry about everything when it comes to babies: Is the infant sleeping enough, eating ...

New research from The ManyBabies Consortium led by Michael Frank of Stanford University reports that babies from different cultures around the globe prefer infant-directed speech (IDS) over ...

A study finds babies prefer baby talk, whether they're learning one language or two. Scientists knew infants learning one language preferred the sing-song tones of parents' baby talk, and now ...

Picture this: it’s a slow Monday evening, you and your partner are on the train (hands entwined, of course), heading back to his place after a wholesome pasta date. He inches closer and whispers in ...

Imagine you’re strolling through a park and you overhear a middle-aged couple cooing over each other, doting over their “wittle sugar pwum” and “baby doll.” “Ewwww,” you might reflexively think. Baby ...