Lallation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lallation \Lal*la"tion\, n. [L. lallare to sing lalla, or
     lullaby: cf. F. lallation.]
     An imperfect enunciation of the letter r, in which it sounds
     like l.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lallation
       n 1: defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r'
            is pronounced as `l'
       2: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: {babble}, {babbling}]