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

They said it also suggests that dyslexia and developmental language disorder may be associated with rhythm perception rather than difficulties with processing phonetic information

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.