A common strategy for extending the small lexicon of a pidgin or baby talk is to resort to repetition of a word and invest it with additional meaning or function.
Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk and pidgins.
The speech of two- and three-year-olds to infant siblings : ' baby talk ' and the context of communication.
Perceptions of baby talk, frequency of receiving baby talk, and self-esteem among community and nursing home residents.
The resident was depicted as either alert or forgetful, and the caregiver either used secondary baby talk or a more neutral variant.
The acquisition of complex phonological utterances probably occurs in ontogenetic stages somewhat older than those in which baby talk normally takes place.
He noted that the intimate, emotional, childishly tinged words of baby talk coexist today with more general and abstract, exclusively adult parental terms.
On the other hand, the general consensus is that secondary baby talk is not an outcome of effective adjustments for elderly hearers.
