(n.) Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(2) Then there's me and my buddy Ralph Garman , who does a daily radio show in LA, doing our entertainment podcast Hollywood Babble-On , which is basically just two guys who've worked in showbiz long enough to have informed opinions, sitting around taking the piss out of the entertainment industry.
(3) To listen to Gordon Brown this morning was to hear a babble of incoherent assertions, delivered very fast and with striking vigour and confidence, which in no way amount to an intellectual case for power.
(4) Phonetic transcriptions of 48 babbling samples from 11 normally hearing subjects, aged 4-18 months, and 39 samples from 14 hearing-impaired (HI) subjects, aged 4-39 months, were analyzed to determine the inventory of consonantal phones for each recording session.
(5) Significant monosyllabic-word-list intelligibility improvements are shown in hearing-impaired and in normal-hearing subjects for virtually any environmental noise, including white noise, babble (interfering background conversations), cafeteria noise, high-frequency noise, and low-frequency noise at signal-to-noise ratios to below -20 dB.
(6) Furthermore, low-frequency amplification, as used in this study, resulted in no observable degradation in syllable recognition in the presence of multitalker babble.
(7) These findings suggest both qualitative and quantitative differences in the babbling of the two groups.
(8) Our goal was to illuminate the role of canonical (well-formed syllabic) babbling in the development of speech by mentally retarded children.
(9) These findings indicate that for children with specific expressive language delay, vowel babble competes with expressive language, consonantal babble facilitates expressive language, and the length and social responsiveness of babble are independent of expressive language.
(10) Thinking of this kind makes Ai not only a great artist, but a thinker of the world's next political and intellectual phase, beyond the turgid babble of contemporary politics.
(11) This investigation examined phonetic variation in multisyllable babbling of infants from 0.7 to 0.11.
(12) The masking noise is an amplitude-modulated, speech-shaped noise signal, which is designed to simulate a 4-person speech babble in order to assess both the frequency selectivity and the temporal resolution.
(13) Acoustic-phonetic differences in the babbling of the two boys were evident in the 8-month sample (the first recording opportunity), and some differences between them became greater over the succeeding samples at 12 and 15 months.
(14) Additional testing with a smaller group of patients was carried out with competing noise (speech babble).
(15) The role of babbling in language development is not well understood.
(16) When both groups listened to speech that had been compressed and presented in a babble, their performance supported a multiplicative distortion theory, with children in the learning disabilities group showing a slightly greater multiplicative effect than the children with no apparent problems.
(17) For instance: "Very early experiences need to be rich in touch, face-to-face contact and stimulation through conversation (or reciprocating baby babble).
(18) Links between babbling and speech point to innate factors in the ontogeny of spoken language and invite attention to central control mechanisms.
(19) For someone who loves art but to whom the art world sounds like babbling in an invented language, this is godsend.
(20) Contrary to prevailing accounts of the neurological basis of babbling in language ontogeny, the speech modality is not critical in babbling.
Rabble
Definition:
(n.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
(v. t.) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
(v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
(v. i.) A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
(v. i.) A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar.
(v. t.) To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.
(v. t.) To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence.
(v. t.) To rumple; to crumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(2) On the other, well, just look at the bigoted rabble.
(3) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(4) Corbyn's Momentum group moves to block influence of hard-left parties Read more Tom Watson, the Labour deputy leader, calls the group “a bit of a rabble”.
(5) At least if he had to join the Army, he decided, he would apply for the Royal Army Medical Corps, but his diminutive stature (he was just over five feet tall) disqualified him from anything but the Bantam units, "a horrible rabble - Falstaff's scarecrows were nothing to these", he wrote.
(6) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
(7) As much as it pains me to point out the blindingly obvious, Sunderland are some rabble.
(8) They were a rabble and, at this level, a team cannot expect to get away with these kind of collective failures.
(9) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more Access to transit zones set up at the border with Serbia has already been severely restricted, human rights groups claim.
(10) That is more than West Ham dare hope for, since for a Sam Allardyce side the visitors were pallid here, almost as much of a pushover as the Blackburn rabble that went down 7-1 three years ago at Old Trafford in a result that altered the course of events at Ewood and ultimately Upton Park.
(11) | Oliver Burkeman Read more The real-estate mogul turned entertainer turned political rabble-rouser-in-chief tweeted a photo of himself on Tuesday – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain – which, upon closer inspection, revealed something shocking to his 3.2 million followers.
(12) According to the police report, "a man claiming to be the chief whip" – pause for mocking laughter from the rabble (sorry, from Labour MPs) – "called the police 'plebs', told them they should know their place, and used other abusive language.
(13) Her criticism of Momentum is the most forthright of any MP for some time, after Tom Blenkinsop called for the group to be banned and Tom Watson dismissed it as a “bit of a rabble” .
(14) This time, Republican primary evangelicals and general election evangelicals want a candidate who not just talks a good game, but who has actual accomplishments in the areas that they care most about.” Courting ‘the lifeline of the Republican Party’ In his two-plus years in the Senate, Cruz has made a name for himself as a rabble-rouser who often butts heads with party leadership.
(15) And there will still be a mixture of homegrown material and features glommed from Wired's American edition, alongside an eclectic slate of contributors that includes the distinguished (Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield) and the rabble-rousing (Warren Ellis, the expletive-addicted comic book writer).
(16) While the iPhone remains the acknowledged market leader in the mobile world – more profitable and trend-setting than anything else in the mobile phone market for years – a rabble of challengers is closing in fast.
(17) They’re a rabble with various causes, mostly anti-establishment and anti-gentrification.
(18) If James hadn’t put her name forward at the last minute, we would have had nothing but a rabble of no-name, no-talent nobodies to choose from.
(19) That said, it contains all the elements required to stir the loins: a glorious and triumphant opening string and brass salvo, followed by a regal and stately middle section (to the manor born), building to a rabble rousing climax.
(20) Even the reliably rabble-rousing Bob Crow, of the RMT, is emphasising Fathers4Justice-style publicity stunts over a general strike.