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completely tangentially, research on baby language acquisition shows that the size of your vocabulary or number of distinct words spoken to the baby matters way less than just how many conversational turns you take back and forth https://t.co/cYRH4P2HAg
Lotta fellow nerds suck at charisma because they think it's about *saying the right things.* It isn't. It's about rapport. It's about being a good reply-guy IRL. Your words can be nonsense as long as you're participating in a back-and-forth patter https://t.co/PgTnTEkNt4
in other words: just take more turns back and forth. can be total nonsense. turns out that's the key to helping babies prepare for language https://t.co/2TpV296ARx
I was terrible at social dance for years bc I thought it was about *making the right moves.* But it's really about making *any movement* as long as it's in response to the music & ur partnerMost dance teachers do students a disservice by focusing on moves instead of groove https://t.co/m1coLvpKL6
here's an example of a dad nonsense turn-taking with his toddler. you can see the attunement, though, in him and the toddler https://t.co/OuRen5NUHE