Baby talk, also known as motherese, is a style of speech used by adults when talking to infants and toddlers. It is characterized by a high pitch, exaggerated pitch variations, and shortened words. Studies have shown that infants prefer baby talk and that it helps in the bonding process between parents and children. It may also aid the child's cognitive development by demonstrating the social and bidirectional nature of language. Neuroscience research indicates that experience, gender, and personality can affect how parents process the speech they use with infants. Some studies even suggest that female rhesus monkeys use distinctive vocalizations amounting to "baby talk" when interacting with infants.
Baby talk, also known as motherese, is a style of speech used by adults when talking to infants and toddlers. It is characterized by a high pitch, exaggerated pitch variations, and shortened words. Studies have shown that infants prefer baby talk and that it helps in the bonding process between parents and children. It may also aid the child's cognitive development by demonstrating the social and bidirectional nature of language. Neuroscience research indicates that experience, gender, and personality can affect how parents process the speech they use with infants. Some studies even suggest that female rhesus monkeys use distinctive vocalizations amounting to "baby talk" when interacting with infants.
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Baby talk, also known as motherese, is a style of speech used by adults when talking to infants and toddlers. It is characterized by a high pitch, exaggerated pitch variations, and shortened words. Studies have shown that infants prefer baby talk and that it helps in the bonding process between parents and children. It may also aid the child's cognitive development by demonstrating the social and bidirectional nature of language. Neuroscience research indicates that experience, gender, and personality can affect how parents process the speech they use with infants. Some studies even suggest that female rhesus monkeys use distinctive vocalizations amounting to "baby talk" when interacting with infants.
Baby talk, also known as motherese, is a style of speech used by adults when talking to infants and toddlers. It is characterized by a high pitch, exaggerated pitch variations, and shortened words. Studies have shown that infants prefer baby talk and that it helps in the bonding process between parents and children. It may also aid the child's cognitive development by demonstrating the social and bidirectional nature of language. Neuroscience research indicates that experience, gender, and personality can affect how parents process the speech they use with infants. Some studies even suggest that female rhesus monkeys use distinctive vocalizations amounting to "baby talk" when interacting with infants.
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Motherese or baby talk
Baby talk, also referred to as caretaker speech, infantdirected speech (IDS) or child-directed speech (CDS) [1][2][3][4] and informally as "motherese", "parentese", "mommy talk", or "daddy talk" is a nonstandard form of speech used by adults in talking to toddlers and infants. It is usually delivered with a "cooing" pattern of intonation different from that of normal adult speech: high in pitch, with many glissando variations that are more pronounced than those of normal speech. Baby talk is also characterized by the shortening and simplifying of words. Baby talk is similar to what is used by people when talking to their pets (pet-directed speech), and between adults as a form of affection, intimacy, bullying or condescension.
Use with infants
Baby talk is more effective than regular
speech in getting an infant's attention.
Studies have shown that infants actually prefer to listen to this type of speech. Some researchers, including Rima Shore (1997), believe that baby talk is an important part of the emotional bonding process between the parents and their child that help the infants learn the language.
Brain research on the importance of 'baby
talk/motherese'
This is according to findings by researchers at the
RIKEN Brain Science Institute and their collaborators,
which show for the first time that experience, gender and personality affect how parents process the speech they use when addressing infants. This is according to findings by researchers at the
RIKEN Brain Science Institute and their collaborators,
which show for the first time that experience, gender and personality affect how parents process the speech they use when addressing infants.
Monkeys Use Baby Talk With Infants
Humans aren't the only animals to use baby
talk when speaking to offspring
rhesus monkeys also go "gaga" over babies, new research says. Puerto Rico's female rhesus monkeys make unique vocalizations to interact with infants to get their attention, the study finds.
Monkeys Use Baby Talk With Infants
"These female monkeys are definitely excited
about looking at babies, and their
vocalizations convey that excitement," said study co-author Dario Maestripieri, an associate professor in comparative human development at the University of Chicago. (Related: "Brain Has 'Face Place' for Recognition, Monk ey Study Confirms" [February 3, 2006].)
Aid to cognitive development
Shore and other researchers believe that baby
talk contributes to mental development, as it
helps teach the child the basic function and structure of language. Studies have found that responding to an infant's babble with meaningless babble aids the infant's development; while the babble has no logical meaning, the verbal interaction demonstrates to the child the bidirectional nature of speech, and the importance of verbal feedback
The childs brain; the purpose of motherese
Babies learn to speak by listening. And all of us all over the world
help them, modulating the sounds of the quicksilver flow of speech in
fundamentally the same way. Put simply, when we speak to infants we speak in a very funny style. When confronted with a baby, adults produce a signal that is raised about an octave in pitch and slows down very carefully and creates these swooping contours. It's not a job interview voice. It's a very distinct voice that's fetching to a baby. Why would every person on the planet do it if it's not important? Doctors and scientists have analyzed it every which way, and learned that adults make an unconscious effort to stretch the signals, exaggerate the acoustic components that are exactly the dimensions that the baby needs to pay attention to in order to form the maps for speech.
