Video: Baby talk in any language

UConn researcher Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, assistant professor of psychology, has found that how you talk to children matters.

Regardless of the language, speaking to infants in a high pitch voice while elongating leads to them producing larger vocabularies when they are toddlers.

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