1) Literary technique 
Psittacism is speech or writing that appears mechanical or repetitive in the manner of a parrot. More generally it is a pejorative description of the use of words which appear to have been used without regard to their meaning. The word is derived from the Latin term for parrots psittaci in an analogy with the ability of some parrots to speak human...
parrot-like repetition of speech
mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.