Toddlers learn language quickly due to how caretakers speak to them, according to a new study. As such, toddlers are better equipped than teenagers and adults to grasp a new language all as a result of fostering language skills via the speed and tone with which they are spoken to.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that toddlers can speak a new language faster than those older than them. This is because parents "use what they know about their children's language" to help explain concepts to them, thus helping to expand their language, according to EurekAlert!

The study, which was published in the journal, Psychological Science, found that parents are very particular with how they speak to their toddlers which fosters their learning of the primary language spoken in the home.

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With strategies from slowing the rate of speech, to repeating words, finding words with the same meaning, and more, toddlers are allowed to slowly build upon what they know about the language. As a result, according to researchers, toddlers are receiving "input that is 'just right'" for learning the next thing," per Science Codex.

According to Open Access Government, how parents speak to their children determines how effectively or ineffectively the children will communicate with others in the future. As such, things such as reading, singing songs, taking trips, and socializing with friends help not only with the development of toddlers' speech but with how they comprehend and pay attention as well.

Because parents know their toddlers better than anyone does, they can tailor the way they speak to them to ensure they understand what is being said. To do this, according to EurekAlert!, parents will speak to their toddlers "more slowly and at a higher pitch."

They also have very simply structured sentences they speak to them in. And as the toddler ages and begins to comprehend more, those same sentences become more complex.

To determine how parents change their speech patterns, tone, and pitch when interacting with their toddlers, researchers observed 41 parent-children pairs and how they interacted during a game.

The game, according to the study, had the parent help the toddlers choose an animal out of a set of three they were familiar with based on the description of the parent.

It went on to have a second set of three where there were animals the toddler was not familiar with. Again, the parent used descriptors to identify the animal.

Researchers found that parents used their knowledge of the language skills the toddlers understood to help with their description skills. They also found that if the toddler did not know an animal they thought they did, they immediately changed their descriptors so that the toddler could learn what it was.

The study consisted of 36 different trials and was made up of a multi-cultural cross-section of the United States.

While the study cannot determine if the toddlers learned anything from the game, what they observed may be able to be replicated when it comes to machine learning in the future.

By giving bits of information that can be learned from versus flooding machines with all of the information that is known at the time, machines have the opportunity to have a solid foundation that can be built upon over time. And by doing this, according to researchers, machines will be given information that is "just right" for their knowledge base at that time.

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Source: EurekAlert!, Science CodexPsychological Science, Open Access Government