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All over the world adults use baby talk with young children, changing their speech a little. Most of the languages that people have studied have lots of vowels, like English, with a, e, i, o, u, ai, ei, au, and more. Warlpiri has only three vowels: a, i, u. Do Warlpiri adults change their vowelsContinue reading “Warlpiri baby talk helps children learn words: our new study”