Here are some vocabulary words that you will hear:
 

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accentuate linguist coo sentient

1. Why is baby talk important, according to linguists?
 

2. Who is Harley?
 

3. Where does Dennis Burman work?
 

4. What did Berman and his colleagues decide to study?
 

5. What three toys did they give the mothers?
 

6. How did was pet talk different than baby talk?
 

7. Why do we accentuate the vowels when we speak with babies?
 

8. What are we doing when we speak to pets?
 

9. Who else do we baby talk to?
 

10. What is another possible reason given for why we speak to pets?

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