Parents should use nursery rhymes and sing-song speech to help young babies learn language, according to experts. The slow, rising and falling rhythm of nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty, much like ...

Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably ...

Scientists have found that infants learn languages from rhythmic information - the rise and fall of tone - as seen in nursery rhymes or songs. Sarah McKinley reports Parents should speak to babies in ...