How to Use baby talk in a Sentence

baby talk

noun
  • Even a stranger at the park might coo to them in baby talk.
    Bydavid Grimm, science.org, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Peña wore fingerless gloves at all hours and spoke in baby talk.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
  • Maybe it's being tossed up in the air, or social contact with baby talk.
    Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • West, hearing the braps, skrrts, and yughs of his peers, has responded with baby talk: scoop!
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 June 2018
  • For instance, baby talk is higher pitched than adult talk, and baby song is smoother than adult song.
    New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • Basically, a kind of baby talk aimed at their pups to guide them towards adult bat language.
    Mark Stratton, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Know Your Audience The results suggest dogs do seem to prefer the canine version of baby talk.
    National Geographic, 31 May 2018
  • Many of the kids who had stopped speaking in baby talk or sleeping in their parents’ beds, or had started going to the bathroom themselves, have regressed.
    Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Maybe adults don't understand baby talk, but this dad didn't let a little gibberish get in the way of a conversation with his son.
    Wesli Jones, CNN, 7 June 2019
  • Even Harry himself got in on the baby talk during his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Invictus Games.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2018
  • In fact, sound designers made baby talk recordings and married the tones with a synthesizer to get R2-D2's nearly human sounds.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Dec. 2019
  • The handyman Boyle traumatized with baby talk has an alibi, which is revealed to Jake via lullaby.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Talk to her in a normal voice (no baby talk or raised voices), but don’t overdo it because too much talk can trigger submissive urination, too.
    Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • There was plenty of baby talk during Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal engagements today.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2019
  • The findings suggest that baby talk and baby song serve a function independent of cultural and social forces.
    New York Times, 24 July 2022
  • Sanad alternated effortlessly between babbling baby talk to his cousin Salma and cracking jokes with the adults.
    Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Commonplace among languages around the world, baby talk involves speaking to infants in a high-pitched, exaggerated way.
    National Geographic, 31 May 2018
  • Forget baby talk--give me kitten talk any day!Mother-offspring recognition in the domestic cat: Kittens recognize their own mother's call.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2016
  • My mother catered to Noosie’s every whim, speaking to her in Arabic baby talk, and her anticipation for grandchildren became less latent.
    Marlo Safi, National Review, 24 Aug. 2019
  • Gizmodo reports that in a study that's been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, puppies respond to baby talk, but full-grown dogs are apathetic to your cooing.
    Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The rest is noise: annoying DJ battles, Dracula passing gas, entire conversations that consist of nonsensical baby talk.
    Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, 12 July 2018

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