Linguists at the University of Edinburgh have been researching the use of baby talk words and Dr Barbora Skarabela is one of them.

Barbora and her colleagues recently did a study which found that words like “choo-choo” help babies pick up language quicker than adult language alone!

Listen to the podcast to find out more about this research into children’s language development.

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