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Here's why 'baby talk' is good for your baby

  • Written by Catherine E. Laing, Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
imageThe way you talk to your baby makes a difference.Elvis Kennedy, CC BY-NC-ND

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 stream of sound, from which the listener has to separate...

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