Speaking to babies in sing-song speech ‘helps them learn language’

The team used special algorithms to interpret how the infants were encoding this information in the brain

Infant electrical brain responses were recorded using a special headcap (Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge/PA)

Parents should speak to babies in sing-song speech to help them learn language, experts have said.

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have found that infants learn languages from rhythmic information – the rise and fall of tone – as seen in nursery rhymes or songs.