{"id":274,"date":"2014-11-13T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2019-11-17T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T17:49:49","slug":"parentese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/parentese\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you fluent in Parentese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff00ff;\"><a href=\"smartcoos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; text-decoration: underline;\">Smart Coos Editorial Staff<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you fluent in Parentese? &#8211; The innate way that parents aid in language&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>development<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u201cWhooo is a caa-yuut bay-bee?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before you&#8217;ve even realized what you\u2019re saying, that question has left your&nbsp;mouth in a pitch that you didn&#8217;t even know you could reach. You feel a little silly but&nbsp;your efforts are rewarded with bright giggles and some baby babbles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<p>You actually shouldn&#8217;t feel silly at all \u2013 everyone around the world engages in&nbsp;this type of speech, a close relative of \u201cbaby talk\u201d. This exaggerated way of speaking,&nbsp;coined as parentese or motherese, helps aid language &nbsp;acquisition and development&nbsp;by teaching young infants the basic unit of language, the phoneme. By emphasizing&nbsp;syllables and elongating and separating vowel sounds, infants can better hear and&nbsp;analyze the basic building blocks of language. Parentese comes so naturally to&nbsp;people from all parts of the world that scientists believe it to be a biologically&nbsp;necessary developmental tool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cYou Talkin\u2019 To Me?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only do babies learn and develop from hearing parentese, they also&nbsp;prefer it to normal intonations. If given the choice between listening to a tape of a&nbsp;woman talking normally or a woman talking in parentese, infants consistently&nbsp;preferred parentese, even to the voices of the infants\u2019 mothers speaking normally.&nbsp;Parentese was preferred even when it was in a foreign language! <a title=\"Four-Month-Old Infants Prefer to  Listen to Motherese\" href=\"http:\/\/waldron.stanford.edu\/~babylab\/pdfs\/Fernald%201985.pdf\">[1]<\/a>&nbsp;speech is more engaging to infants since their little ears are more attuned to higher&nbsp;pitches. <a title=\"Acoustic Determinants of Infant  Preference for Motherese Speech \" href=\"http:\/\/psych.stanford.edu\/~babylab\/pdfs\/Fernald&amp;Kuhl%201987.pdf\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cRead My Lips\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you think you sound silly when you speak parentese, check yourself out in&nbsp;the mirror when you speak parentese. Infants aren\u2019t just attracted to the sound of&nbsp;Parentese &#8211; they also enjoy the exaggerated facial expressions. The big smiles and&nbsp;wide opening of the mouth gives the infant positive reinforcement for his or her&nbsp;own babbles while also helping to associate certain vowel sounds with specific&nbsp;mouth movements, helping with speech development. [3]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So get silly and do your best Mickey Mouse impersonation! Parentese helps&nbsp;with language development and helps form social bonds! Talking in this manner to&nbsp;teenagers, however \u2013 studies have yet to come to a firm conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed to by Aarushi Sharma<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">[3] Kaplan, Peter; Jung, Paula; Ryther, Jennifer; Zarlengo-Strouse, Patricia (September<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1996). \u201cInfant-directed versus adult-directed speech as signals for face\u201d. Developmental<\/p>\n<p>Psychology 32 (5): 880\u2013891<\/p>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Smart Coos Editorial Staff &nbsp; Are you fluent in Parentese? &#8211; The innate way that parents aid in language&nbsp;development &nbsp; \u201cWhooo is a caa-yuut bay-bee?\u201d Before you&#8217;ve even realized what you\u2019re saying, that question has left your&nbsp;mouth in a pitch that you didn&#8217;t even know you could reach. 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