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 ...

In this way of making these little vocal sounds from yourself to your baby, you are giving back to them what they have lost after birth. You don't have to sing straight away, if you're not happy ...

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 ...