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Word: Echolalia
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek ēkhō ‘echo’ + lalia ‘speech’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌɛkə(ʊ)ˈleɪlɪə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
meaningless repetition of words just spoken by another person, occurring as a symptom of mental conditions.
Short Definition:meaningless repetition of another person's words as symptom of mental conditions
Definition:
repetition of speech by a child learning to talk.
Short Definition:repetition of speech by child learning to talk
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