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mogilalia
[ moj-uh-ley-lee-uh, -leyl-yuh ]
noun
- any speech disorder characterized by difficulty or hesitancy in speech production, as stuttering or stammering; disfluency.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mogilalia1
First recorded in 1875–80; from Greek mogilál(os) “hardly talking” ( mógi(s) “with difficulty” + lálos “babbling”) + -ia noun suffix; -ia
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Example Sentences
These examples illustrate very well the mogilalia and paralalia that exist in every child, but with differences in each individual.
From Project Gutenberg
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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