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echolalia|ɛkəʊˈleɪlɪə|
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἠχώ echo + λαλιά talk.]
1. a. Path. The meaningless repetition of words and phrases. b. Educational Psychol. The repetition of words and phrases by a child that is learning to speak.
1885Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 290/1 Periphrastic forms of speech and the recurring or barrel-organ utterances, constituting what is known as echolalia. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxiv. 407 His condition is that of ‘Echolalia’,—instead of answering the question, he simply reiterates it. 1924R. M. Ogden tr. Koffka's Growth of Mind v. 311 At the time when speech is being learned, there begins a period of echolalia in which the child repeats with tireless continuation all the words or sentences it hears. 1924[see echopraxia]. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 264/2 Echolalia or imitation of definite phonetic patterns. 1943Mind LII. 317 The uttering of a tautology may be a natural sign-function which..truly mediates in a particular context many useful inferences, such as, that the person is an unconscious metaphysician, is subject to echolalia, [etc.]. 1948[see echopraxia]. 1955T. Morrow in G. Caplan Emotional Probl. Early Childhood iii. 343 He displayed, and displays, classical echolalia and delayed echolalia. 1964B. Rimland Infantile Autism (1965) iii. 180 There are numerous instances of affirmation by repetition and echolalia in the literature on autism.
2. A depreciatory term for a succession of sounds in poetry which subordinates sense to sound.
1895Westm. Gaz. 3 Dec. 2/1 Our suspect poets, with..their liking for echolalia. 1897R. Vallance William Morris iii. 31 The ‘Eve of Crecy’ contains two magnificent examples of that mode of poetic expression, dubbed ‘echolalia’ by Max Nordau, and as such condemned by him.
Hence echoˈlaliac, echoˈlalian, echoˈlalic adjs.
1927C. Gray in H. J. Foss Heritage of Music 181 Von Bülow..was at least constant in his echolalian obsessions. 1931E. Wilson Axel's Castle vii. 252 Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations. 1938J. Eisenson Psychol. Speech iii. 47 When the infant reaches the echolalic and voluntary utterance levels, he has reached a developmental stage where rather finely differentiated muscular responses can be made. 1959S. Sitwell Bridge of Brocade Sash viii. 170 The priest..who with echolalic persistence reiterated the same name over and over again. |