Baby Talk: Decoding The Secret Language Of Babies
To us non-babies, babbles like "ah-gah" and "dadadadada" can sound like cute gobbledygook. But they don't have to be such a mystery. We'll get a primer on how to decipher the dialect of tiny humans.
by Shankar Vedantam
May 14, 2018
1 minute
Bababababa, dadadadada, ahgagaga. Got that?
Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To us non-babies, it all sounds like charming, mysterious, gobbleydegook. To researchers, though, babbling is knowable, predictable, and best of all, teachable to
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