The baby brain is a great gateway for language to be transferred from brain to brain. All the main connections in the brain ...

Before babies learn to talk in a real language -- say English or Spanish -- they babble and coo, playing with sound. That's baby talk, and baby talk sounds similar the world over.

The timeline for when babies learn to talk is gradual—and can vary considerably from child to child. Generally speaking, babies start squealing and making different sounds around 6 months of age.

In a nutshell Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times ...

Babies have to learn to use their mouth muscles to make specific sounds. They experiment with different sounds and mouth shapes. So, what exactly is happening when babies start learning to speak?

There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.

Babies may start to learn language before they are born. ... Gervain and her colleagues studied the brain activity of 49 babies with French-speaking mothers aged between one and five days old.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our ...