“Adjusting our speech to sound smaller when we use baby talk may be a way to convey affect to the baby, by trying to sound like them,” she said. “At the same time, it can also help them in terms of ...

Imagine if the ordinary sounds you hear daily transformed into intricate musical rhythms in your head — cars honking in traffic, kids playing basketball in the street or a co-worker tapping a pen on a ...

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Chicago bassist-vocalist Katie Ernst is standing atop a hill in rustic Egg Harbor, Wis., where she’s teaching jazz at Birch Creek Music Performance Center. She’s hoping her altitude will help her get ...

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We all use baby talk when we babble with bundles of joy, but does how we talk to infants vary across cultures? The answer seems to be yes and no. "Some cultures talk more or less to babies, some not ...

"Adjusting our speech to sound smaller when we use baby talk may be a way to convey affect to the baby, by trying to sound like them," she said. "At the same time, it can also help them in terms of ...