Baby talk

Baby talk (or motherese) is the name used to designate a linguistic subcode used by adults and children over 5-6 years of age, spontaneously, when they talk to and communicate with more children small. Baby laughing. characteristics

The linguistic input given by adults to children who are learning to speak has been systematically analyzed to verify Noam Chomsky's hypotheses that children mostly hear incomplete and grammatically incorrect discourses by adults who surround We know that spoken language contains frequent errors, due to the influence of memory and variation of attention. However, it is also known that adults do not target children in the same way as adults. There are data that confirm it, defining a language code, the Motherese or baby talk.

This method is intended to improve and monitor the effectiveness of the child's understanding of messages and to suppose important aids for imitation and language learning.

When speaking to infants, we tend to speak more slowly, with a slow voice, or at times to raise our voice, we are more expressive, we take care of pronunciation, we use simpler and shorter phrases, or part of the sentence, are made to the context, while pointing or manipulating objects and using a greater number of gestures and mimicry.

This adaptation of the language is an implicit educational process through which the adult manifests his desire to give the child expressive tools increasingly elaborate.

This way of talking to the baby is a positive and indispensable way to acquire the language, as it helps them to focus their attention and begin that communicative exchange that will gradually become more complex.

Baby talk has also been linked to gorillas, as several studies have reported that they use a non-vowel form of "baby language."

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