Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I was the only one who knew that it was 'borrowed' content that she was trying out. She usually managed to place it completely appropriately contextually, so people other than me didn't understand that she was quoting Emeril rather than making it up as she went. It wasn't exactly echolalia, either, because as noted, she was using it IN context. It was almost like a word-acquisition skill on steroids. She acquired whole phrases or paragraphs and used them. It gradually stopped when she was about five or six.

Yup. My DD does this a lot less at 3.5 than she used to but i can think of examples from this week were she's repeated near verbatim something I've said in later conversation, used correctly and the. Modified / reprocessed for an additional related thought.