0 to talk or say something in a quick, confused, excited, or silly way: --
1 (of a stream) to make the low, continuous noise of water flowing over stones: --
2 a continuous low or confused sound, especially the sound of several people talking: --
3 to speak quickly, in a confused, excited, or foolish way: --
He has a slurred speech, he babbles, and that perhaps due to his suppressed upbringing.
There can be a period of silence between productions of babbling and productions of the first words in speech.
He is rather drunk and babbles.
The child then moves to babbling and, gradually, the introduction of syllables and words until finally simple phrases and sentences are reached.
In desperation, on this mythical journey, one sees a little babbling brook, stream or whatever.
There is too much babbling about the workers.
In the (1990) monograph, "babbling speech in infants" was listed in the index as being discussed on pages 64 - 66, but there was nothing about babbling on those pages.
Where's the drift in babbling drift ?