Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated
Examples
“Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech).”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“I think I have palilalia/a tic - Is it onset by anxiety?”
“Complex vocal tics may involve having to repeat one phrase over and over, whether it is something one heard (echolalia) or one's own last words (palilalia). ”
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Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, apraxia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, freudian slip and 22 more...
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