MOGILALIA Definition & Meaning

mogilalia

[ moj-uh-ley-lee-uh, -leyl-yuh ]

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noun

any speech disorder characterized by difficulty or hesitancy in speech production, as stuttering or stammering; disfluency.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

First recorded in 1875–80; from Greek ��ǲ��á��(�ǲ�) “hardly talking” ( ��ó��(��) “with difficulty” + ��á��ǲ� “babbling”) + -ia noun suffix; -ia

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Example Sentences

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These examples illustrate very well the mogilalia and paralalia that exist in every child, but with differences in each individual.

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Only the examples added for explaining mogilalia and paralalia are taken in part from Sigismund, a few others from Vierordt.

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Mogilalia.—Children, on account of the as yet deficient control of the external organs of speech, especially of the tongue, can not yet form some sounds, and therefore omit them.

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