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		narag on Feb 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Search Is Dying You think the baby really wants to hear googoo gaagaa? Now, they are trying to say "I'm hungry. Feed me!" I suspect they know the sound they want to make but they don't know how to articulate it. They make an approximation and we can encourage them repeating the correct version, so they realize we understood what they're trying to do: "you're half way" but repeating their approximation is misleading.

iainmerrick on Feb 15, 2022 [–]

Most people don’t literally say “goo goo ga ga” to babies; what they actually do is echo babies’ nonsense sounds back at them.

I subscribe to the theory that this helps babies understand what they sound like, and therefore helps them learn how to produce the sounds they want.

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