baby talk for your newborn? new research is showing it s not just cute but essential for your little one s speech development. here s linzie davis. hello, mikey. do you know who i am? reporter: just like in the movie look who s talking, we ve all spoken in this high-pitched, highly exaggerated language known as baby talk or parentese. oh, yeah, she s gone. reporter: a new study shows our babies may be benefitting from the babbling. according to researchers at the university of washington in seattle, dolg dolling out the da, da, das may improve speech development. for the first time it is evidence the brain is working on it well before they have the capability. i don t think it is ever too early to talk to the baby. reporter: using a noninvasive
new research is showing it s not just cute but essential for your little one s speech development. here s abc s linsey davis. hello, mikey. do you know who i am? reporter: just like in the movie look who s talking, we ve all spoken in this high-pitched, highly exaggerated language known as baby talk or parentese. oh, yeah, she s gone. reporter: a new study shows our babies may be benefitting from all that babbling. according to researchers at the university of washington in seattle, dolling out the da, da, das may improve speech development. even if they can t talk back yet. for the first time it is evidence the brain is working on it well before they have the true capability. i don t think it is ever too early to talk to the baby. reporter: using a noninvasive brain scanner, the study monitors 7 and 11 to 12-month-old babies listening to a series of syllables such as da and ta.
and the outfit the little boy had on was what ethan wore to day care today. i was like wow this really is ethan and that s a how i fund out about it. putting your kid on instagram without your approval that s an obvious no-no but there s something deeper to talk about. ethan has delayed speech development, a lot of kids have that, they can grow into t get help, but you you put this kid into the care of these people and you see the photo online and how they re using it. what did it mean to you? it meant at my house we don t make fun of each other of our shortcomings, things that are out of our control and things that we things that we need extra help with we don t tease each other about. it was so foreign i figured they don t care about ethan. he s not important to them if they can do this to him and that s how i felt from that. that s your rule among family, those who have somewhat of a right to talk about each
conversation with each other in their baby language. what were they saying? here is cnn s jeanne moos. reporter: if you haven t heard the talking twin babies by now, you haven t been listening. dada. reporter: their mom put the video on her blog and it ended up on youtube and now these two raised baby talk to an art. but now talk has turned to what they are saying. they are not really saying anything. they are just babbling. they are imitating each other. reporter: dr. harriet kline is an expert in speech development. most people seem to think the kids were talking about socks. or maybe they were talking about
they re saying. they re not really saying anything, they re just babbling. ba ba ba ba ba ba. they re imitating each other. one is perpetuating the babbling in the other. reporter: dr. harriet klein is a leader in speech development. those who aren t have been providing their own subtitles. most people think they re talking about socks. ba ba ba ba ba. pa ba ba ba ba ba. reporter: maybe they were talking about current events, a certain snake escape. ba ba ba ba ba ba. ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. reporter: others seem disturbed by the babbling. whoooo. reporter: there have been cases of twins who developed their own private lingo. there was a documentary made about twins in california who spoke their own language until