by jmarsella | Apr 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
We don’t talk to infants the same way we talk to adults: almost automatically, we shorten our sentences, stretch out words, and exaggerate our pitch. This ‘baby talk’, or child-directed speech, appears across languages and across cultures. Why do we talk to children...
by jmarsella | Apr 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Child-directed interactions, one-on-one interactions that directly engage a child, have long been considered optimal for children’s early social learning, especially for early language development. There have been many naturalistic studies that show how children’s...
