From the time of birth your baby will make a lot of sounds. This includes cooing, gurgling, and of course, crying. And then, often sometime before the end of their first year, your baby will utter ...

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 ...

In the Baby Lab at Bucknell, Professor Ruth Tincoff, psychology, is asking how and why this is true and her theory is that language comes to infants not only in what they hear, but in what they feel.

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 ...

Adults might be hardwired to understand the nonsense baby-talk of toddlers, scientists have found. This ability of grown-ups to parse the early attempts of children to talk may also help the children ...

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“Mamama,” “dadada,” “bababa” – parents usually welcome with enthusiasm the sounds of a baby’s babble. Babbling is the first milestone when learning to speak. All typically developing infants babble, ...

In infancy, caregivers rely on facial expressions and vocal cues to understand a baby's needs and emotions, as babies do not use language. Research shows that while facial expressions are important, ...