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    Baby Talk: Decoding The Secret Language Of Babies

    To us non-babies, babbles like "ah-gah" and "dadadadada" can sound like cute gobbledygook. But they don't have to be such a mystery. We'll get a primer on how to decipher the dialect of tiny humans.
    by Shankar Vedantam May 14, 2018 1 minute
    Researchers say when a baby is babbling, she's primed to learn.

    Bababababa, dadadadada, ahgagaga. Got that?

    Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To us non-babies, it all sounds like charming, mysterious, gobbleydegook. To researchers, though, babbling is knowable, predictable, and best of all, teachable to

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