The exact cause of palilalia is unknown.

A 2007 case study by Van Borsel et al. examined the acoustic features in palilalia.

Klazomania is similar to other complex tics including echolalia, palilalia and coprolalia.

Perseveration can include palilalia and logoclonia, and can be an indication of organic brain disease such as Parkinson's.

Perron, Marianne: Review of Palilalia.

Such results indicated not all palilalic repetitions show an increasing rate with decreasing volume, and defied the two distinct subtypes of palilalia as suggested by Sterling.

It has features resembling other complex tics such as echolalia or coprolalia, but unlike other aphasias, palilalia is based upon contextually correct speech.

Some of those in the psychiatric community weighed in, judging that Stein suffered from a speech disorder, palilalia, which caused her "to stutter over words and phrases."

Echolalia (repetition of another person's words) and palilalia (repetition of the subject's own words) can be heard with patients with autism, schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease.

Other disorders with symptoms resembling stuttering include Asperger's syndrome, cluttering, Parkinson's speech, essential tremor, palilalia, spasmodic dysphonia, selective mutism, and social anxiety.

Observation of his perceptual speech characteristics and Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment results suggested AB suffered from hypokinetic dysarthria with a marked palilalia.

Simkin's case rests on his proposed association of coprolalia, palilalia, and echolalia with alleged examples of facial and bodily motor tics, which occurred during Mozart's adult life.

This pandemic also gave rise to observations of other tics that came to be associated with encephalitis lethargica such as complex vocalizations of blocking, echolalia, palilalia, and oculogyric crises.

Echolalia (repeating the words of others) and palilalia (repeating one's own words) occur in a minority of cases, while the most common initial motor and vocal tics are, respectively, eye blinking and throat clearing.

On the contrary, Mozart's tomfoolery, scatty humour, puns, plays on words, amusing irrelevancies, distractability, clanging, echolalia, palilalia, and psychomotor hyperactivity are characteristic of the upswings in mood of a cyclothymic bipolar disorder.

Other features that are noted during attacks include mutism, palilalia, eye blinking, lacrimation, pupil dilation, drooling, respiratory dyskinesia, increased blood pressure and heart rate, facial flushing, headache, vertigo, anxiety, agitation, compulsive thinking, paranoia, depression, recurrent fixed ideas, depersonalization, violence, and obscene language.