Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Videos of caregivers chatting with babies as if they’re adults are going viral and sparking conversation. Instead of relying on ...

Does my pwecious bab-ee want a dwink-ee? Or her blank-ee? Baby talk's vowel-heavy vocabulary and high pitch are heard in nurseries around the world. But infant-directed speech (aka “motherese” or ...

We all use baby talk when we babble with bundles of joy, but does how we talk to infants vary across cultures? The answer seems to be yes and no. “Some cultures talk more or less to babies, some not ...