baby talk


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Synonyms for baby talk

an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child

the developing speech of a young child

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They checked the speech for baby talk words and onomatopoeic words that sound like their meaning, such as woof and splash.
[USA] Aug 1( ANI ): Baby talk words build infants' language skills better, a recent study has found.
What are the reasons mothers, and even other adults, indulge in baby talk with infants?
Still, what has been done suggests that baby talk makes words easier for babies to pronounce and teaches general language concepts.
Una tweeted back: "Aoife Belle says thank you in baby talk!:) Xx."
Whilst their American bosses may wish to patronise the American public with baby talk, we Brits are made of sterner stuff.
Baby talk: Elizabeth Banks (Wendy) and Brooklyn Decker (Skyler) in What To Expect When You''re Expecting
This sparked a stampede among women desperate to cradle the bald baby and engage it in 'baby talk'.
The store has been filled with baby talk since the women discovered their children or their partners were expecting It all kicked off last April when Dawn Curry, who works in the frozen food department, broke the news that her son Christopher's partner Lauren was pregnant.
MEET THE PARENTS: LITTLE FOCKERS - DECEMBER 19 Expect some baby talk in this latest instalment of the hit comedy series.
Nursery songs and baby talk, mistaking The guards for their fathers.
Based on cutting-edge neuroscience, child development literature, and classic anthropology, Falk (anthropology, Florida State U.) proposes a radically different theory: mother-infant interaction and "motherese"--also known as baby talk or musical speech--led to the development of human speech, and from that, to the development of music and art.
Such a risk is what Ann Lesage the main character of Hal Ross' novel The Doll Brokers is about to undertake when she signs a multi-billion dollar deal to manufacture Baby Talk N Glow.
Researchers suspect that baby talk, with short sentences, slow pace and sing-song tone, helps infants to start distinguishing words from other sounds.