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語源

From echo- +‎ -lalia; echo- ultimately from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ, “reflected sound, echo”), -lalia from λαλιά (laliá, “talk, chat”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɛkə(ʊ)ˈleɪlɪə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɛkoʊˈleɪliə/
• 韻: -eɪliə

名詞

echolalia (countable and uncountable, plural echolalias)

1. (clinical psychology, autism) The involuntary repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another person; either immediate or delayed.

   Hyponyms: movie talk, TV talk

   • 1984, Jon Eisenson, Aphasia and related disorders in children, page 30:

     Their echolalic responses may be much more extensive than the single words or short phrases that are characteristic of normal echolalia. Thus, a pseudoverbal autistic child may respond to "Do you want a cookie, Jimmy?" with a replication of the very same words.

   • 2026 March, Marcio Moacyr Vasconcelos, Luciana Gonçalves Azevedo Vasconcelos, Adriana Rocha Brito, “Unveiling autism spectrum disorder for the pediatrician”, in Jornal de Pediatria, volume 102, supplement 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 3:

     A child older than 24 months with echolalia as the only language is likely to receive a diagnosis of ASD[.]

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.
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 50:

     There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.

派生語

参照

• “echolalia”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “echolalia”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.