REPETITIONS IN FINAL POSITION IN A 9-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH FOCAL BRAIN-DAMAGE

This paper describes the final repetitions displayed by a nine-year-ol d boy with a history of cerebral trauma. The dysfluencies that he evid enced are somewhat different from those reported in previous studies i i that his final repetitions tended to involve an entire syllable or t he nucleus and coda of a syllable rather than an individual sound. Als o, they co-occurred with whole-word repetitions of terminal words of u tterances. This raises the possibility that this symptomatology repres ents a form of palilalia.