Echolalia: fun with words or speech disorder? (based on a example of language behavior of an autistic girl)

Abstract

The article contains a critical analysis of tasks occurring in deferred echolalic speech of a child. Different circumstances couse the presence of specific wording in the emerging speech acts observed in autistic girl behavior. The Theory of Relevance helps to examine the child’s statements both with respect to the acquisition of competence as well as for cosituation occurrence of short acts of the child’s speech during his daily life. This proposal allows the insightful observation from the phenomenon of echolalic speech of an autistic girl.