playful, often nonsensical talk used to amuse or imitate a baby
baby talk
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baby talk
noun
- See child-directed speech.
- 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.
- Speech produced by young children that displays the syntactic, morphological, and phonetic imperfections typical of young children learning language.
- Oversimplified speech or writing.
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