baby talk

noun

: the speech used by very young children who are learning to talk or by adults who are speaking to young children

Full Definition of BABY TALK

a : the consciously imperfect or altered speech used by adults in speaking to small children

b : the syntactically imperfect speech or phonetically modified forms used by small children learning to talk

: oversimplified speech or writing

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noun

: the syntactically imperfect speech or phonetically modified forms used by small children learning to talk

: the consciously imperfect or altered speech often used by adults in speaking to small children

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