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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (13 children)

Not sure why this triggered a snarky response unless Ted is just waving a monkey puppet for internet points. Talking normally to kids is not rocket science, and it's not stereotypical yuppies desperate to get their gifted darlings into AP class. It's very simple - little kids can handle normal speech just fine, so why use baby talk?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because there's a ton of research that we adapted to do it for good reasons:

Infants between 6 and 8 months of age displayed a robust and distinct preference for speech with resonances specifying a vocal tract that is similar in size and length to their own. This finding, together with data indicating that this preference is not present in younger infants and appears to increase with age, suggests that nascent knowledge of the motor schema of the vocal tract may play a role in shaping this perceptual bias, lending support to current models of speech development.

Stanford psychologist Michael Frank and collaborators conducted the largest ever experimental study of baby talk and found that infants respond better to baby talk versus normal adult chatter.

TL;DR: Top parents are actually harming their kids' developmental process by being snobs about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You can also just talk normally to your kids without being a snob about anything.

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