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Researchers believe parents should sing to infants as rise and fall in tone helps them gain knowledge of words
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P … How many would read this to that tune?
According to scientists from the University of Cambridge, there’s more to the earworm than infuriating parents across the English-speaking world – they have found that singsong speech is crucial to helping babies learn language.
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