• Question: why cant babies talk

    Asked by anon-174160 to Alex, Carl, Melanie, Tim, Yewande on 20 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 20 Jun 2018:

      Babies can’t speak but their immature brains haven’t developed the ability to speak as adults do yet. They can however understand tone and facial expressions.

    • Photo: Yewande Oyekenu

      Yewande Oyekenu answered on 21 Jun 2018:

      The brain part that controls speech is the cerebrum and as babies develop this part develops to be able to process language. When babies are in the womb for nine months, they don’t speak. When they are born its a whole new world where they meet people who can talk, so they need to adjust by learning the language spoken to them, They also start to speak at different stages depending on how much communication they get.

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