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Baby Talk
see synonyms of baby talkNoun
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Baby Talk
see synonyms of baby talknoun
1.
the speech of very young children learning to talk
2.
an adult's imitation of this
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Baby Talk
see synonyms of baby talk playful, often nonsensical talk used to amuse or imitate a baby
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Baby Talk
see synonyms of baby talkn.
1. See child-directed speech.
2. Simplified speech similar to child-directed speech, used by adults when speaking to others besides children, as to display affection or to belittle the intelligence of the listener.
3. Speech produced by young children that displays the syntactic, morphological, and phonetic imperfections typical of young children learning language.
4. Oversimplified speech or writing.
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