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inner language

1. the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic mental imagery of words and concepts.

2. speech spoken to oneself without vocalization. According to Lev Vygotsky, inner language follows egocentric speech and represents the child’s recruitment of language in his or her reasoning efforts. Also called inner speech. See also internalized speech; verbal thought.

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