19 Jul 2022

Wellingtonians love their baby talk

From Afternoons, 1:30 pm on 19 July 2022

A new study has found that Wellingtonians are big into their baby-talk!

The research found that many people around the world naturally pitch up their voices when they talk and sing to babies, but no one quite as much as New Zealanders.

To tell us more about her research Jesse interviews one of the lead authors of the study, Courtney Hilton from the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Young mother and father with newborn

Young mother and father with newborn Photo: 123RF