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[–] [email protected] 188 points 1 month ago (46 children)

Baby-talk is a universal human phenomenal and almost certainly plays an important role in helping kids learn language.

The implication that not using baby talk somehow unlocks rapid development of language is simply not true.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Idk man. There's this 3yr old girl that's a child of one of our family's friends. She's pretty expressive with her vocabulary. Like i can have full blown conversations with this girl without dumbing much down, and i think that might be due to her parents' pedanticalness.

[–] Lemmynated 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s because she’s 3.

Baby talk is for babies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought we were referring to toddlers as well. Oh well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

wait, toddlers and babies are significantly different terms? i've been speaking english for decades and thought they were effectively just synonyms..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's a defined term(with variances of course), means between the age of 1 and 3. Weird definition though, really big difference between a 1 year old and a 3 years old child.

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