Infant Direct Talk: The Usage Of Baby Talk

However, on the other hand of the argument is that baby talk helps babies and young toddlers learn to speak. In fact, these caregivers like to talk baby talk because it is lyrical and silly and makes the babies smile. In addition to make a baby smile, using infant direct talk such as the singsong voice helps babies on how to decade a sentence and build a vocabulary. A professor at university of Waterloo found that almost all languages, even sign languages, use baby talk. Baby talk helps make consonants and vowel clear and helps them hear the difference between them. Furthermore, having one on one conversation-using infant direct talk with a baby has led to better language development; eventually, the toddler will start to learn the give and …show more content…
For the articles that favor adult-direct talk used research found in journal of Association for Psychological Science, a Case study, and an expert, speech therapist. On the opposing side of for baby talk or infant direct talk, used research that was conduct in university such as the university of Stanford and Connecticut. Neither side provided data to back up the statements of baby talk only the empirical finding. Expect for how many words a two year old knew using infant direct talk, but even then, the data was very limited. However, while using empirical research it was not stated when the research was conducted and what variables were used to determine this. However, on the side for baby talk, one of the sources was a blog; therefore, there was no qualifications on the parents who were writing that baby talk is helpful and not detrimental. Whereas, the other side of the controversy of not using baby talk only had qualified personnel such as a speech therapist and a journal of psychological science on all of the sources provide for their case. Even so, the side that seemed to do a better job at the debate is side for baby talk. Even though, not every source was qualified, there was more research done every source had two to three research done by universities around the USA and did provide some data of how many words a two year old knew. As well, using a parent blog, even though there