1. an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others;
2. (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia);
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
echolalia
n 1: an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others
2: (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the
words of another person (as in schizophrenia)