Example sentences for: glossolalia

How can you use “glossolalia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Glossolalia is the technical term for artificial languages, or “speaking in tongues,” as it is more commonly known.

  • Hans Winkler, the German Semitist, noted in 1935 that glossolalia, incantations, and children's chants all display certain common tendencies, namely, 1) the repetition of a given motif ( feemalator, jasperator; touchar souchar; astramuphar, astramuchur ), and 2), the economical use of the vocal apparatus.

  • Here is a small start on a glossary of glossolalia, a demidictionary of drivel that lists the varieties of verbal obfuscation and explains the etymologies of these often playful terms.

  • The same impoverishment of formal devices is found in examples of religious glossolalia, with an exaggerated tendency towards repetition, syllable reduplication, vocalic parallelism, open syllabification, excessive symmetry in contrasts, an impoverished inventory of sounds--whatever the mother tongue of the glossolalist.


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