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Significados de caretaker speech en inglés

A non-standard form of language used by adults when talking to toddlers and infants which is characterized by high pitch, reduced syntactic complexity and simplified vocabulary.

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Examples for "baby talk"
Examples for "baby talk"
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.
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