Ann Fernald: “Sound is kind of like touch at a distance.”
We at Radiolab did our own study of infant-directed speech, recording more than a dozen different parents. The melodies of these recordings illustrate Fernald’s findings that there are a set of common tunes living within the words that parents all over the world intone to their babies.
Source: Sound As Touch – Radiolab
Fernald's findings: there are a set of common tunes living within the words that all parents intone to their babies. Click To Tweet