baby talk
11baby talk — 1. the speech of children learning to talk, marked by syntactic differences from adult speech and by phonetic modifications like lisping, lalling, omission and substitution of sounds, etc. 2. a style of speech used by adults in addressing… …
12baby talk — ba′by talk n. 1) ling. the speech of children learning to talk, marked esp. by syntactic simplification and phonetic modifications like omission and substitution of sounds 2) ling. a style of speech used by adults in imitation of this, esp. in… …
13baby talk — noun Date: 1823 1. a. the consciously imperfect or altered speech used by adults in speaking to small children b. the syntactically imperfect speech or phonetically modified forms used by small children learning to talk 2. oversimplified speech… …
14baby talk — noun (U) sounds or words that babies use when they are learning to talk …
15baby talk — noun The form of speech used by adults in talking to very young children. Syn: child directed speech, motherese, parentese …
16baby talk — n. words and sounds that babies make while they learn to speak; imitation of the speech of a small child made by an adult; oversimplified speech …
17baby talk — UK / US noun [uncountable] sounds and words that babies make when they are learning to speak, or similar sounds and words that adults use when talking to babies …
18baby talk — /ˈbeɪbi tɔk/ (say baybee tawk) noun 1. the imperfect language of babies or infants just beginning to speak. 2. adult speech resembling this. Also, babytalk …
19talk — I n. address, lecture 1) to give a talk 2) a pep; sales talk 3) a talk about, on (she gave an interesting talk on bringing up children) conversation chatter 4) to have a talk (with) 5) blunt, plain; idle, small; loose; table talk 6) a long talk… …
20talk — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 a conversation ADJECTIVE ▪ brief, little (often ironic), short ▪ I will have to have a little talk with that young lady (= tell her that I disapprove of sth). ▪ good …
