Meaning of lallation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The incorrect pronunciation of the letter "r" so that it sounds like an "l" (or "w").
   countable, uncountable
2. Baby-talk or gibberish.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“She spoke Aramaic with a lazy lallation, affected by many because it was the natural speech of a class.”

““Everybody wovs you,” Mary Madelyn said to Melchior. Whenever she pronounced an el it became doubleu. […] Except for her partial lallation she spoke well […]”

“1648, Robert Baron, Erotopaignion, Or the Cyprian Academy, London: J. Hardesty et al., “To the Ladies and Gentlewoemen of England,” When you talke with your children you expect⟳ from them no congruence or quaint language, yet you are often pleased to heare them prattle, & are delighted with their lisping Ideoms. This makes me hope⟳ that you will dispence with the Lallation & Low dialect of this babe, whose tone is rude, yet his meaning is plaine dealing, which according to the proverbe is a jewell, and consequently most fit for Ladies.”

“The auto-imitation in lallation, a form⟳ of spontaneous talking, precedes the imitation of strange words and sounds. […] in lallation the infant follows his own⟳ inclination, while in imitating the sound⟳ heard from others he will have⟳ to accommodate himself to a strange perception.”

“The chronic effects of the barbiturates on neurological and psychic function resemble⟳ those of alcohol. There may be dizziness, clumsiness and ataxia; dysarthria, nystagmus, mental disturbances, nervousness, tremor, lallation, confusion, peculiar behavior, weakness of judgment, emotional instability and hallucinations.”

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