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When my son was 2, we moved from Texas to Missouri.  There were many changes going on in his life.  We were leaving the only home he had ever known and his father was home.  He started to repeat things incessantly.  I noticed it first when we were driving to Missouri. 

I didn't even know what it was that he was doing until he was about 6.  He would repeat phrases he had heard from me and from TV over and over.  He did talk to me but our conversations were not what you'd call normal.  He would repeat things but original conversation didn't occur very often.  This is all in hindsight.  I didn't at the time realize what a problem this was.  I beat myself up over it all the time.  

He doesn't repeat things often now unless he's feeling stress or anxiety.  I can catch it and try to help him.  Also, he will repeat a question back to me when he is unsure of himself.  

I had a psychologist once say to me in his effort to change my mind about homeschooling that his echolalia was happening because he was lonely.  I had already dismissed almost everything he had told me but this helped solidify my opinion of him.