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 ...

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech. The way we instinctively speak to babies - higher pitch, slower speed, ...

Portrait of a crawling baby on the carpet in my room(Getty Images/iStockphoto/idal) A new study suggests that when parents engage in baby talk to their infants, they ...

AND THEY SAY YOU CAN HELP AS WELL. STILL IN DIAPERS WITH A MIND OF HIS OWN. WE’LL GIVE YOU SOME TIME TO WARM UP. HE’S THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS STUDY, BUT CLEARLY, THAT DOESN’T MATTER TO HIM. TAKE ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter—they help to build a baby's emerging language skills. Subscribe to our ...

Even infants too young to discern the meaning of words seem better able to learn while listening to the sound of human speech than while listening... Enough With Baby Talk; Infants Learn From Lemur ...

WASHINGTON -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers, too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from ...

WASHINGTON — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found that ...

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into ...