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Wonder how to teach your tot to talk? Simple, just baby-talk!
No matter how much you cringe at the thought of it, know that babbling to your new-born helps them pick a language faster and grasp more words. The more words babies hear the faster their vocabulary grows.
Recent findings attest that “early language development is spurred not so much the quantity of words as the style of speech and social context in which speech occurs.”
The more you exaggerate the vowels - for example ‘How are youuuuu?’ - and raise the pitch of your voice, the more your one-year-olds are likely to babble — a precursor to speech.
Also, it has been observed that baby talk is most effective when a parent speaks to the child one-to-one, without others around.
Dr Kuhl said: ‘The fact that the infant's babbling itself plays a role in future language development shows how important the interchange between parent and child is.’
AW: Suchorita Choudhury
