baby talk

Some doctors even advised parents to avoid using baby talk, thinking it too silly or patronizing.

Better insight into the role of baby talk in a child’s growth could help psychologists and others identify infants at high risk of developing a language disorder.

The high-pitched, singsong tone we switch to when interacting with young children can go by many names—baby talk, parentese, or, according to development specialists, infant-directed speech.

That’s part of the dog-directed speech—baby talk, but for puppies—that Emily Bray, who studies dog psychology and development at the University of Arizona, recited to 375 puppies to see whether or not they would pay attention to human faces.

In some parts of the world, moms do not regularly play with their kids or speak in baby talk, and concepts like “toddler” and “teenager” may not exist.

Nina, delighted to see the animal once more, was caressing his long ears and mumbling baby-talk to him.

She did not wear pretty dresses nor laugh nor address baby talk to "Boo'ful."

It is all idle to talk baby-talk, and give shallow accounts of deep things, thinking thereby to interest the child.

The men89 chattered, the women laughed, and there was an affectation of baby-talk at nearly every table.

At twenty she had been addicted to baby talk when endeavouring to coax something out of someone.