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Meanings of infant-directed speech in English

Portuguese
fala de bebé
Spanish
baby talk

Usually delivered with a "cooing" pattern of intonation different from that of normal adult speech: high in pitch, with many glissando variations that are more pronounced than those of normal speech.

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      Synonyms
      Examples for "cds"
      Examples for "cds"
      1
      Banks say the CDS market is too small to influence debt prices.
      The Irish Times
      2
      Describes the history of CDs and how they've affected the record business.
      The new yorker
      3
      CD-R recorders usually are used to create permanent archives or bootable CDs.
      Backup & recovery
      4
      All listened to the CDs each night at bedtime for 30 days.
      Wired
      5
      Computer firms have long railed against pirated software and CDs in China.
      The Irish Times
      1
      He establishes catechists and teachers of the faith to supply ids place.
      The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
      2
      Weismann identified ids with the disk-like microsomes, recently observed as linearly ordered on chromosomes.
      The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
      3
      The biggest problem facing post-apartheid South Africa is the spread of IDS.
      The Irish Times
      4
      I need to see IDs, and we need to check the trunk.
      Consent to kill: a thriller
      5
      The Markovians talked easily of Venor and the rest of the Ids.
      Cubs of the Wolf
      1
      I caught snatches of her voice, the gentle singsong of baby talk.
      The devil's bones: a body farm novel
      2
      In the baby talk of conventional psychology, I'm taking away George's father figures.
      The illuminatus! trilogy
      3
      If you talk baby talk to them, they will talk baby talk back.
      The Mother and Her Child
      4
      Poppa gives general domestic directions, and then talks baby talk to little Shirley.
      The new yorker
      5
      I put baby talk in his mouth, trying to conceive of the sound.
      Back on murder
      Usage of infant-directed speech in English
      1
      Several ways in which father involvement may positively or negatively affect infant responsiveness to male infant-directed speech are discussed.
      Pubmed
      2
      Infants of unmarried mothers on average did not show significant learning in response to the unfamiliar nondepressed father's infant-directed speech.
      Pubmed
      Translations for infant-directed speech
      Portuguese
      fala de bebé
      Spanish
      baby talk