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Use with infants&aby talk is more e$ectie than regular

speech in getting an infants attention*tudies hae sho#n that infants actuallyprefer to listen to this type of speech *omeresearchers, including +ima *hore (1-),beliee that baby talk is an important part ofthe emotional bonding process bet#een theparents and their child that help the infantslearn the language

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Brain research on the importance of 'babytalk/motherese'

This is accordin to !ndins by researchers at the"I#$% Brain Science Instit&te and their collaborators

which show for the !rst time that e(perience enderand personality a)ect how parents process thespeech they &se when addressin infants*

This is accordin to !ndins by researchers at the

"I#$% Brain Science Instit&te and their collaboratorswhich show for the !rst time that e(perience enderand personality a)ect how parents process thespeech they &se when addressin infants*

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Monkeys Use Baby Talk +ith Infants

.umans arent the only animals to use baby

talk #hen speaking to o$spring/rhesus monkeysalso go "gaga" oer babies,ne# research says

0uerto +icos female rhesus monkeys make

uniue ocali'ations to interact #ith infants toget their attention, the study nds

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/%20http:/animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/rhesus-monkey.htmlhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/%20http:/magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature2/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.comhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/%20http:/magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature2/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.comhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/%20http:/animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/rhesus-monkey.html

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Monkeys Use Baby Talk +ith Infants

"hese female monkeys are denitely ecitedabout looking at babies, and theirocali'ations coney that ecitement," saidstudy coauthor 5ario 6aestripieri, anassociate professor in comparatie humandeelopment at the 7niersity of 8hicago

(+elated%"&rain .as 9ace 0lace for +ecognition, 6onkey *tudy 8onrms"[9ebruary 3, 2::;])

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0203_060203_brain.htmlhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0203_060203_brain.htmlhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0203_060203_brain.htmlhttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0203_060203_brain.html

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,id to conitie deelopment*hore and other researchers beliee that baby

talk contributes to mental deelopment, as ithelps teach the child the basic function andstructure of language *tudies hae found thatresponding to an infants babble #ithmeaningless babble aids the infantsdeelopment< #hile the babble has no logicalmeaning, the erbal interaction demonstratesto the child the bidirectional nature of speech,and the importance of erbal feedback

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_developmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_development

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he child=s brain< the purpose of motherese

&abies learn to speak by listening >nd all of us all oer the #orldhelp them, modulating the sounds of the uicksiler ?o# of speech infundamentally the same #ay 0ut simply, #hen #e speak to infants#e speak in a ery funny style @hen confronted #ith a baby, adults

produce a signal that is raised about an octae in pitch and slo#sdo#n ery carefully and creates these s#ooping contours !ts not aAob interie# oice !ts a ery distinct oice thats fetching to a baby@hy #ould eery person on the planet do it if its not importantB

5octors and scientists hae analy'ed it eery #hich #ay, and learned

that adults make an unconscious e$ort to stretch the signals,eaggerate the acoustic components that are eactly the dimensionsthat the baby needs to pay attention to in order to form the maps forspeech