In a nutshell Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times ...

Your baby will probably be able to talk – using a few simple words to express meaning – around their first birthday. By around 8 to 12 months old, your baby will begin to attach meaning to words.

The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

This letter writer’s 7-year-old constantly speaks in a “squeaky baby voice with bad grammar” that annoys the whole family.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...

Humans from different cultures speak to their children using a form of speech known as “child-directed speech”, or “baby talk”. Though to us, it may seem natural to communicate directly with our ...

They’re often very sweet, and it’s lovely to see the babies’ faces light up at the sound of their mother or carer’s voice, or seeming to talk back. In one, the baby appears to reply in an ...