Where it occurs,babytalkor motherese is commonly assumed to simplify language learning and to contribute to the linguistic development of children.From theCambridge English Corpus
There are, for example, different kinds of "familiar" registers; there are the familiar registers associated withbabytalkas opposed to adolescent peer-group talk.From theCambridge English Corpus
Beginning frombabytalk: twenty years of research on input and interaction.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is studied under a number of different titles: elderspeak, dependence-inducing, and secondarybabytalk.From theCambridge English Corpus
In this way,babytalkdistracts attention from the wider array of adaptations and modifications that may influence language development.From theCambridge English Corpus
The paralanguage of caregiving:babytalkto the institutionalized aged - the field study.From theCambridge English Corpus
The paralanguage of caregiving :babytalkto the institutionalized aged.From theCambridge English Corpus
On the other hand, the general consensus is that secondarybabytalkis not an outcome of effective adjustments for elderly hearers.From theCambridge English Corpus
He noted that the intimate, emotional, childishly tinged words ofbabytalkcoexist today with more general and abstract, exclusively adult parental terms.From theCambridge English Corpus
The acquisition of complex phonological utterances probably occurs in ontogenetic stages somewhat older than those in whichbabytalknormally takes place.From theCambridge English Corpus
The resident was depicted as either alert or forgetful, and the caregiver either used secondarybabytalkor a more neutral variant.From theCambridge English Corpus
Perceptions ofbabytalk, frequency of receivingbabytalk, and self-esteem among community and nursing home residents.From theCambridge English Corpus
The speech of two- and three-year-olds to infant siblings : 'babytalk' and the context of communication.From theCambridge English Corpus
Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech,babytalk, foreigner talk and pidgins.From theCambridge English Corpus
A common strategy for extending the small lexicon of a pidgin orbabytalkis to resort to repetition of a word and invest it with additional meaning or function.From theCambridge English Corpus
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