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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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fala de bebé
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