'Baby talk' from parents improves babies' language

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'Baby talk' from parents improves babies' language

Analysis of communication approaches shows that one-on-one contexts are similarly advantageous.
Molly McElroy

UW co-authored a study of 26 families. At 2 years old; children who had heard baby talk in mostly one-on-one contexts had vocabularies more than twice as large, on average, than children whose parents had used less baby talk.