In preference tests, babies seemed more interested in happy-sounding “baby talk” than hummed songs. In the experiments, each sound, either a song or speech pattern, was linked to a computer ...

After you’ve had your baby, singing is a great way to teach them new words and speech sounds. It’s also a great opportunity for eye contact and touch. And it can even calm them down and help ...

Before babies learn to talk in a real language -- say English or Spanish -- they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over. Babbling and ...