How Babies Learn to Speak: The Importance of Baby Talk

Baby on colourful play mat holding soft ball surrounded by toys

The late Dr Jusczyk, who conducted extensive research on the relation between speech perception and language acquisition in infants ranging from 6 weeks to 24 months, concluded that babies could even pick out their own name as early as 4 1/2 months old! Additionally, by 9 months old, they are already recognising frequent patterns within … Read more