interlude syllable internal inflection [Lat. internus ‘within, inside’]

Language form that serves not as verbal communication but rather as a vehicle for thinking. There are different approaches for explaining the function, form, and development of internal language; a detailed discussion can be found in Vygotskij (1934). He characterizes internal language by the ‘tendency for shortening and weakening the syntactic segmentation, and making it more dense’ (p. 341). ( also egocentric language, language acquisition)

References

Kohlberg, L., J.Yeager, and E.Hjertholm. 1968. Private speech: four studies and a review of theories. CD 39. 691-736.