“Don’t use baby talk. Speak to them like an adult.” It’s a familiar piece of advice, often delivered with confidence and good intentions. The reasoning seems straightforward. If we want children to ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants. Baby talk is ...