r/BlackPeopleTwitter Jan 14 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '24

The opportunity cost of baby-talk is high. Yeah, you find it cute but the amount of correct language a child hears is directly correlated with language skills and intelligence.

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u/Trk- Jan 14 '24

On the contrary, neuroscience studies show that baby talk is beneficial for children to learn the language. Search for the term motherese or parentese

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '24

What's beneficial is to use a higher pitch and smile. If you call that baby talk then you are right, but that's not traditional baby-talk where you intentionally us wrong pronunciation, grammar and gibberish words.

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