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barbaralalia

barbaralalia noun: the presence of a foreign accent, regarded as a speech defect.

Noun

barbaralalia (uncountable)

  1. (dated) The presence of a foreign accent, regarded as a speech defect.
    • We may then summarize the usual defects of speech which characterize barbaralalia as follows: (1) sound substitutions (2) sound additions (3) sound omissions (4) misplaced stress (5) incorrect intonation.1936, Herbert Koepp-Baker, A Handbook of Clinical Speech, volume 2, page 300
    • The correction of barbaralalia (foreign accent) is in the strictest sense speech re-education, since the speech correctionist is aiding the foreign speaker to change one set of speech habits for another.1941, Charlotte G. Wells, The Correction of Foreign Accent, page 34

Questions about barbaralalia

What does barbaralalia mean?
Barbaralalia means the presence of a foreign accent, regarded as a speech defect.
What part of speech is barbaralalia?
Barbaralalia is a noun.

Words near barbaralalia in the dictionary

  1. barbamides
  2. Barban
  3. Barbar
  4. Barbara
  5. Barbara's buttons
  6. barbaralalia
  7. barbaralane
  8. barbaralanes
  9. barbaralyl
  10. barbaras
  11. Barbareno

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