In American English, this type
of babytalk typically uses high pitch, short utterances, repetition, loud volume and slowed - down speech.
If he had lived longer, Louis's ga - ga play might have acquired an entire cultural setting: Berryman's babble; Roethke's rickety rhythms... There is a cartoon quality in, for example, Para 1 of 1959, that hints at a parallel to their
boozy babytalk.
We know what you're thinking: ping - pong tables, beer at noon, endless stock options, company names that sound
like babytalk.
Hearing
my babytalk also encourages me to talk more, which in turn stimulates baby «sneural dendrites and circuits in the brain and causes the lefthemisphere's language centers to grow.
The word «nanny» is a close synonym of «nurse», and may derive from
a babytalk...