Baby talk is a term used to label the word forms that many adults use when speaking to children. Examples in English are choo-choo for "train" and bow-wow for "dog." Baby talk seems to exist in every language and culture. At least two things seem to be universal about baby talk: The words that have baby-talk forms fall into certain semantic categories (e.g., food and animals), and the words are phonetically simpler than the adult forms (e.g., "tummy" /t?mi/ for "stomach" /st?m?k/). List all the baby-talk words you can think of in your native language; then (1) separate them into semantic categories, and
(2) try to state general rules for the kinds of phonological reductions or simplifications that occur.