Crossword clues for echolalia
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"meaningless repetition of words and phrases," 1876, from German (von Romberg, 1865), from Greek ekho (see echo (n.)) + lalia "talk, prattle, a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," of echoic origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context clinical psychology English) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another. 2 An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development. 3 Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.
WordNet
n. an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Wikipedia
Echolalia (also known as echologia or echophrasia) is defined as the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person (by the same person is called palilalia). In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. It is one of the echophenomena, closely related to echopraxia, the automatic repetition of movements made by another person; both are "subsets of imitative behavior" whereby sounds or actions are imitated "without explicit awareness". Echolalia may be an immediate reaction to a stimulus or may be delayed.
The word "echolalia" is derived from the Greek , meaning " echo" or "to repeat", and (laliá) meaning "speech" or "talk" (of onomatopoeic origin, from the verb (laléo), meaning "to talk").
Echolalia is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock band Something for Kate which was released on 22 June 2001. It peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart, was voted the Best Album of 2001 by Triple J listeners and earned the band six ARIA Music Award nominations for Album of the Year, Best Adult Alternative Album, Single of the Year ("Monsters"), Best Group, Best Cover Art and Best Video ("Monsters"). It was issued in the United States and a limited edition US included a second disc titled "Past and Present Tension". The second disc included past songs and singles, as well as some live versions of their older songs. In October 2010, Echolalia was listed in the top 40 in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.
Usage examples of "echolalia".
The will, it would seem, does not intrude here as a disturbing force, and echolalia manifests itself in its purity, as in the case of hypnotics.
On the other hand, the copying of the manner of speaking, of accent, cadence, and ring of the voices of adults was surprising, although echolalia proper almost ceased or appeared again only from time to time.
But as late as the twenty-eighth month echolalia was present in the highest degree in this very vigorous and intelligent child, for he would at times repeat mechanically the last word of every sentence spoken in his hearing, and even a single word, e.
Though the echolalia sometimes passed for response to conversation, a kind of shortcut.
He also had an occasional lapse into echolalia, repeating his own words again and again.
I were suffering from echolalia, but I clamped my mouth shut and let him continue.
There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
Dwayne was wondering how long his attack of echolalia was likely to last, and Patty Keene had to find out if her brand-newness and prettiness and outgoing personality were worth a lot to a sweet, sort of sexy, middle-aged old Pontiac dealer like Dwayne.
He recalled how the street seemed inanely alive with the horrid cheer that haunted zoos and menageries, how the cries of bird sellers, of puppy wallahs and cat peddlers intermingled and created an eerie and disturbing echolalia, at once mocking of and mocked by the chatter of their caged and staring stock in trade.