Abstract We report a patient who presented with a head injury associated with a brief loss of consciousness. Oral and written language characteristics were analysed on two different occasions. Twenty-five months after the head injury, some mild naming difficulties were found, associated with a notable dysfluency, corresponding to a mixture of stuttering and palilalia. In addition to his speech dysfluency, paligraphia, a tendency to word iterations when writing, was observed. Forty-five months after the head injury, severe palilalia and stuttering were still found, but paligraphia had disappeared. Palilalia and stuttering were severe in spontaneous language. No dysfluency was found in confrontation naming and verbal fluency tests. In language repetition, a minimal number of iterations was observed. Key Words: paligraphiapalilaliaacquired stuttering