Baby Talk in Any Language

UConn researcher Nairán Ramírez-Esparza has found that, regardless of the language, how you talk to young children matters.

 

UConn researcher Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, assistant professor of psychology, has found that how you talk to children matters. Regardless of the language, speaking to infants in a high pitch voice while elongating vowels leads to them producing larger vocabularies when they are toddlers.