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  2. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    Verbal paraphasias are confusions of words or the replacement of one word by another real word; another definition is that of a contextually inappropriate English word or an English word of a syntactically incorrect class – the wrong part of speech, for example. [14]

  3. Semantic dementia - Wikipedia

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    In neurology, semantic dementia (SD), also known as semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of semantic memory in both the verbal and non-verbal domains. However, the most common presenting symptoms are in the verbal domain (with loss of word meaning).

  4. Receptive aphasia - Wikipedia

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    The more phonemic paraphasias in a word, the harder it is to understand, to the extent at which may become unidentifiable. Often, these unidentifiable words are known as neologisms. Semantic (verbal) paraphasia: Failure to select the proper words with which to convey their ideas. The word used is always a real word, however it may not always be ...

  5. Paragrammatism - Wikipedia

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    Paragrammatism is sometimes called "extended paraphasia," although it is different from paraphasia. Paragrammatism is roughly synonymous with " word salad ," which concerns the semantic coherence of speech rather than its production.

  6. Transcortical sensory aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Transcortical sensory aphasia is characterized as a fluent aphasia. Fluency is determined by direct qualitative observation of the patient’s speech to determine the length of spoken phrases, and is usually characterized by a normal or rapid rate; normal phrase length, rhythm, melody, and articulatory agility; and normal or paragrammatic speech. [5]

  7. Paranomia - Wikipedia

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    The medical condition verbal paraphasia, an aspect of aphasia, where the patient speaks a word different from the one they intended to say; A misspelling of the 1986 Art of Noise single Paranoimia; A translation of "para nomos" (alongside the normative), a term in Greek philosophy, sometimes meaning lawlessness

  8. Language center - Wikipedia

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    Phonemic paraphasia and anomia (impaired word retrieval) are the results of phonological retrieval impairment. [ 7 ] Another lesion that involves impairment in language production and processing is apraxia of speech , a difficulty synchronizing articulators essential for speech production. [ 2 ]

  9. Brian Butterworth - Wikipedia

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    Hesitation and the Production of Verbal Paraphasias and Neologisms in Jargon Aphasia. Brain and Language, 8, 133–161. Butterworth B. (1981). Speech errors: old data in search of new theories. (pp. 627–662). In A. Cutler (ed.) Slips of the Tongue and Language Production: Berlin: Mouton. Butterworth B. (1983).