Meaning of barbaralalia | Babel Free

Definitions

The presence of a foreign accent, regarded as a speech defect.

dated, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level