barbaralalia
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[edit]Noun
[edit]barbaralalia (uncountable)
- (dated) The presence of a foreign accent, regarded as a speech defect.
- 1936, Herbert Koepp-Baker, A Handbook of Clinical Speech, volume 2, page 300:
- 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.
- 1941, Charlotte G. Wells, The Correction of Foreign Accent, page 34:
- 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.