why do we automatically change our voices to talk to babys and pet? what causes that?
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Baby-directed speech and pet-directed speech are similar because it actually does get the animals/baby’s attention and it holds it for longer than normal speech patterns.
However with baby-directed speech we tend to exaggerate the pronounciation of words but we don’t so this with animals. so this suggests that it can also be a tool to help teach babies to speak.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-04671-z
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