jokeltelu — meaning in English

English meaning

• babbling noun The stage in early childhood when infants experiment with speech-like sounds before forming real words.

Senses

jokeltelu is used for these senses in English:

• babbling (uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
• babbling (countable, uncountable) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period

babbling — full definition

1. noun The stage in early childhood when infants experiment with speech-like sounds before forming real words.
2. noun Rapid, meaningless, or hard-to-follow talk.
3. adj Making a continuous soft murmuring sound.

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