All babies babble in the same way initially, no matter where in the world they're from. It's how we speak to them that shapes their language. BBC Tiny Happy People caught up with LuCiD's Gert Westermann (Lancaster University), to find out more about how babies begin to make speech sounds and how parents can help them build their babble into words. You can read the full article here.
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Gert Westermann & Jacky Chan
Prof Gert Westermann (Lancaster University) is a LuCiD co-director & Dr Jacky Chan (Lancaster University) is our LuCiD postdoc.