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In the article //Babbling babies -responding to one-on-one 'baby talk' helps master more words// researchers at the University of Washington an University of Connecticut examine a bunch of conversations that involves parents conversating with their little toddlers. The researchers were comparing parents who conversate with their toddlers in normal speaking voice versus parents who speak to their toddlers in a more emphasized, more animated voice. Researchers were trying to see how well the toddlers respond to both styles of speaking. Researchers were also trying to see whether the toddlers speech occurred in a private setting with the parent or in a group setting. Researchers were testing the waters to see how well toddlers brain develops speech in a different settings.In the study researchers found that when babies are talked to in a one-on-one setting with other children or parent in baby talk has been proven to show better language developing in the process of now and in the future. The more the toddler hear exaggerated vowel or high pitch voices from the parents, the more likely the toddler will feel encouraged to babble back.Twenty-six babies were experimented on,around the age of one years old wearing audio recording vest for 8 hours a day for four days. The researchers used a software to study the intervals of the recorded speech. With the information they found they were able to identify who was talking in each recording, how many people were there, and whether baby talk or regular speaking was being used. The experiment went on for a year.By the age of two years old parents were asked to fill out a questionaire based on the experiment and it showed babies knew more words when talked to in baby talk compared to babies who weren't talked to in baby talk.

References: University of Washington. "Babbling babies – responding to one-on-one 'baby talk' helps master more words." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 6 January 2014. .

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