Why Don't Babies Talk Like Adults?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-dont-babies-talk

by amichail • 17 years ago

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jamesbritt• 17 years ago

"This E*Trade commercial is only the latest proof of what comedians and movie directors have known for years: few things are as funny as a baby who talks like an adult ..."

Well, let's not carried away. It's cute in small dosages.

EDIT: Just came across this:

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izcs• 17 years ago

this article was adapted from free blogs and u have to pay to read all of it? seriously?

weeksie• 17 years ago

Because they're stupid babies.

xenophanes• 17 years ago

Hate moar?

jaytee_clone• 17 years ago

"Why don't adults talk like babies?" would be a more insightful question in my opinion.

shrikant• 17 years ago

So, uh, practice makes perfect, and babies just haven't been around in the world long enough?

wglb• 17 years ago

My experience raising two children is that adults often talk to babies with babytalk. we talked to our babies with adult language and they didn't really use babytalk.

anamax• 17 years ago

Market segmentation.

Why Don't Babies Talk Like Adults?

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