{"id":46682,"date":"2022-07-23T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/gaga-for-goo-goo-wellington-named-the-global-capital-of-baby-talk"},"modified":"2022-07-23T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:00:17","slug":"gaga-for-goo-goo-wellington-named-the-global-capital-of-baby-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46682","title":{"rendered":"Gaga for goo goo: Wellington named the global capital of baby talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the New Zealand city have the world\u2019s most extreme vocal changes when speaking to babies, a study has found<\/p>\n<p>From small tribes in the remote Pacific islands to the teeming cities of China, humans share the common language of baby talk \u2013 but new research has discovered that Wellington, New Zealand, is the global capital of cooing.<\/p>\n<p>An international study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-022-01410-x\">Nature Human Behaviour,<\/a> collected 1615 recordings of 410 people from 21 societies speaking and singing to an adult and then a baby in more than a dozen languages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/gaga-for-goo-goo-wellington-named-the-global-capital-of-baby-talk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the New Zealand city have the world\u2019s most extreme vocal changes when speaking to babies, a study has foundFrom small tribes in the remote Pacific islands to the teeming cities of China, humans share the common language of baby talk \u2013 but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,77,56,757,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-family","category-new-zealand","category-parents-and-parenting","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions\/46683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}