Babbling Babies Behavior Changes Parents’ Speech
[Source: Medical X-Press]
New research shows baby babbling changes the way parents speak to their infants, suggesting that infants are shaping their own learning environments.
Researchers from Cornell University’s Behavioral Analysis of Beginning Years (B.A.B.Y) Laboratory found that adults unconsciously modify their speech to include fewer unique words, shorter sentences, and more one-word replies when they are responding to a baby’s babbling, but not when they are simply speaking to a baby.
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