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the only language where 'wawa' outperforms a full sentence.
means a simplified, high-pitched speech style adults use with infants, full of repetition, melody, and words a dictionary would disown.
from linguists call it caregiver speech or motherese, documented across nearly every studied culture and language, suggesting it is less a quirk than a hardwired teaching tool.
pitch shiftadults raise pitch by up to an octave
universal habitfound in cultures with no contact whatsoever
infants prefer itbabies listen longer to babytalk than normal speech
grammar trainerexaggerated vowels help babies learn sounds faster