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• Baby talk — This article is about speech directed at babies. For speech like sounds produced by babies, see babbling. For other uses, see Baby talk (disambiguation). Whoopsie daisy redirects here. For the song by Terri Walker, see L.O.V.E (album). Baby talk …   Wikipedia

• baby talk — n [U] sounds or words that babies use when they are learning to talk …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• baby talk — baby ,talk noun uncount sounds and words that babies make when they are learning to speak, or similar sounds and words that adults use when talking to babies …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• baby talk — noun 1. an adult s imitation of the speech of a young child • Syn: ↑babytalk, ↑motherese • Hypernyms: ↑non standard speech 2. the developing speech of a young child • Syn: ↑babytalk …   Useful english dictionary

• baby talk — 1. the speech of children learning to talk, marked by syntactic differences from adult speech and by phonetic modifications like lisping, lalling, omission and substitution of sounds, etc. 2. a style of speech used by adults in addressing… …   Universalium

• baby talk — noun (U) sounds or words that babies use when they are learning to talk …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• baby talk — UK / US noun [uncountable] sounds and words that babies make when they are learning to speak, or similar sounds and words that adults use when talking to babies …   English dictionary

• talk — I n. address, lecture 1) to give a talk 2) a pep; sales talk 3) a talk about, on (she gave an interesting talk on bringing up children) conversation chatter 4) to have a talk (with) 5) blunt, plain; idle, small; loose; table talk 6) a long talk… …   Combinatory dictionary

• baby — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ new, newborn, tiny ▪ low birthweight, small, tiny ▪ Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of producing a low birthweight baby. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• talk — talk1 [ tɔk ] verb *** ▸ 1 communicate ▸ 2 discuss ▸ 3 give lecture ▸ 4 give secret information ▸ 5 achieve something by talking ▸ 6 send information ▸ 7 have power to persuade ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive to use words to communicate: Can their… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Baby Butch — Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name = Baby Butch series = Tom and Jerry caption = The title card of Baby Butch director = William Hanna Joseph Barbera story artist = William Hanna Joseph Barbera animator = Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Ed Barge… …   Wikipedia