Blue, said the nurse austerely, "you know your mother doesn't like baby talk, Teddy."
Where it occurs, baby talk or motherese is commonly assumed to simplify language learning and to contribute to the linguistic development of children.
There are, for example, different kinds of "familiar" registers; there are the familiar registers associated with baby talk as opposed to adolescent peer-group talk.
Beginning from baby talk : twenty years of research on input and interaction.
This is studied under a number of different titles: elderspeak, dependence-inducing, and secondary baby talk.
In this way, baby talk distracts attention from the wider array of adaptations and modifications that may influence language development.
The paralanguage of caregiving: baby talk to the institutionalized aged - the field study.
The paralanguage of caregiving : baby talk to the institutionalized aged.
