How to Use baby talk in a Sentence
baby talk
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Peña wore fingerless gloves at all hours and spoke in baby talk.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
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Maybe it's being tossed up in the air, or social contact with baby talk.
—Matt Villano, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
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For instance, baby talk is higher pitched than adult talk, and baby song is smoother than adult song.
—New York Times, 24 July 2022
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Basically, a kind of baby talk aimed at their pups to guide them towards adult bat language.
—Mark Stratton, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2021
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The dogs bark incessantly, and their owners respond with baby talk.
—Roxane Gay, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
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At 13 weeks, babies can start to imitate sounds, babble in baby talk, and are beginning to use their hands more.
—Parents Editors, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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With more research, scientists could add support for this finding and determine the extent of dolphins’ baby talk.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
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The findings suggest that baby talk and baby song serve a function independent of cultural and social forces.
—New York Times, 24 July 2022
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Sanad alternated effortlessly between babbling baby talk to his cousin Salma and cracking jokes with the adults.
—Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2019
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The handyman Boyle traumatized with baby talk has an alibi, which is revealed to Jake via lullaby.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
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Know Your Audience The results suggest dogs do seem to prefer the canine version of baby talk.
—National Geographic, 31 May 2018
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There was plenty of baby talk during Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal engagements today.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Jan. 2019
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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
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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
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These rituals can include nicknames, baby talk, weird accents, secret signals, or recurring references that would make absolutely no sense to anyone else.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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In Torvald’s presence, Nora remains a recognizable type, the strategically chirpy songbird pursing her lips and cooing in baby talk.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
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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
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