Timeline for How to act when people bring a baby to work?
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| Aug 8, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | psmears | @DanielJour: sure, there's a range - I was responding to the suggestion that people should speak to babies "like a normal person", which could be taken to mean "always talk babies like you would an adult" - which the research shows may actually be harmful. Though, of course, one random person out of a whole office is rather different from, say, the parents doing so! :) | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @DanielJour - I can honestly say I have never heard anything that silly. Thank goodness. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | Daniel Jour | @anongoodnurse grammatical repetition like this is good of course, but how about: "ye ye ye yessy si si yiii. Oooouh. Suuuuuuchy niceydycytrycyiihhh." ? (And now I messed up my auto correction... ) | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:59 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @DanielJour - Just joined this community, but IDS is quite similar everywhere I hear it. It comes very naturally; it doesn't need to be taught. And, yes, repetition is part of it ("Yes, it is, Oh, yes it is"!!!) It's sing-songy, silly, repititious, and very helpful to infants. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @NVZ - oops, sorry. I see the point has been made before in comments. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | Daniel Jour | @psmears ... there's a huge range between "the baby voice" and normal (as in directed to other adults) speech. The research you quote looked at "IDS [which] is characterized by exaggerated intonation, as well as reduced speech rate, shorter utterance duration, and grammatical simplification." IMO this is far from what most people do when they're trying to do "baby speech" (where words are often degenerated and needlessly repeated) and has much more in common with normal speech. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | NVZ | @anongoodnurse I see. Thanks everyone. I don't have kids yet. :) | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 11:51 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | @NVZ - Studies have shown that babies learn more about speech from baby talk than adult speech. :) | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 17:13 | comment | added | 1006a | @psmears is correct—regular exposure to "child-directed speech" (aka parentese or baby-talk) is one of the largest factors in language development for infants and small children. It can predict both how fast children learn language and how fluent they eventually become. Of course, it's not the responsibility of random coworkers to provide this input. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:28 | comment | added | psmears | @NVZ: Actually there's research showing that speaking in "baby-talk" to infants actually improves their language development. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | Nothing annoys me more than people talking to my tiny people as if they were stupid creatures. They're just tiny people, it's totally fine to talk to them as other human beings. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:59 | history | edited | NVZ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:59 | comment | added | NVZ | +1 especially for "it's in fact very important for their speech abilities to develop correctly that they'd be spoken to correctly" | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 15:28 | history | answered | werfu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |