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'Sing-song' speaking to babies helps them learn language, says experts

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.

They also discovered that babies do not begin to process

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