
Twin babies have a conversation
This video of twin toddlers engaging in what sounds like a preverbal debate has set the Internet cooing and scrambling to decode exactly what these babies are saying to each other. In an ABC News story that ran last night, the conclusion was that they aren't saying anything, but they are still communicating. University of Memphis linguist D. Kimbrough Oller suggests that "they're communicating about perhaps the fun of having a conversation," which is a really meta concept for 17-month-olds to be exploring — or 17-year-olds, for that matter...
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