Is "baby talk" really good for babies? Adults tend to speak to babies using a special type of register that we know as "baby talk" or "motherese." How 'baby talk' helps infantsSo, baby talk is not just a way of engaging with infant on a social level - it has important implications for language learning from the very first moments of a newborn's life. Features of baby talk present infants with information about their ambient language, and allow them to break up the speech stream into smaller chunks. While baby talk is not essential to guiding infants' language learning, the use of pitch modulations, repetition and slower speech all allow infants to process the patterns in their language more easily.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 15, 2017 01:59 UTC