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baby talk (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The form of speech used by adults in talking to very young children.

   Synonyms: babyese, caregiver register, child-directed speech, hypocorism, motherese, parentese

   Meronym: babble word

   Coordinate terms: childspeak; adultspeak

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter III, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     [...] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with. Her whole aspect was that of a girl who at the drop of a hat would start talking baby talk.

2. (linguistics) The prelanguage, and subsequent developing language, used by small children, incorporating crying, cooing, and babbling in sequence before the acquisition of adult language capabilities.

   Meronyms: babble word, goo goo ga ga

   Coordinate terms: child language, childspeak

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参考

• Category:English childish terms

Further reading

• baby talk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia