As a pediatrician, I always ask about babble. “Is the baby making sounds?” I ask the parent of a 4-month-old, a 6-month-old, a 9-month-old. The answer is rarely no. But if it is, it’s ...

He's a baby." Well, it turns out that baby babble has a deeper meaning. I called up Megha Sundara, the linguistics department chair at UCLA, whose lab is unlike any lab you've ever heard of.

Baby babble eventually "drifts" towards the language the baby is exposed to. Sundara says the primary reason that babies may babble in very similar ways early on, pre-drift, is because of ...

Can you hear me now? The world doesn't need more babble, but it's coming - in a gizmo about the size of a radio that is supposed to improve office life. Of course, that's what the people at Herman ...