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| id·i·o·glos·si·a [ ìddee ə glóssee ə ] |
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1. childhood speech difficulty: a developmental speech difficulty in which a child substitutes different sounds for the correct ones, so that speech is intelligible only to parents or others familiar with it
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2. private language: the invention and use by a child or closely involved siblings of language that is unintelligible to anyone else
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| [Late 19th century. < Greek idioglōssos< idios "distinct" + glōssa "tongue"] |
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