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  2. Paraphasia - Wikipedia

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    Neologistic paraphasias, a substitution with a non-English or gibberish word, follow pauses indicating word-finding difficulty. [13] They can affect any part of speech, and the previously mentioned pause can be used to indicate the relative severity of the neologism; less severe neologistic paraphasias can be recognized as a distortion of a real word, and more severe ones cannot.

  3. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia is defined as the repetition of the speaker's words or phrases, often for a varying number of repeats. Repeated units are generally whole sections of words and are larger than a syllable, with words being repeated the most often, followed by phrases, and then syllables or sounds.

  4. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Techniques that involves figure of speech. Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class; Dysphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a harsher tone over one with a more polite tone; Euphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a more polite tone over one with a harsher tone

  5. Speech (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Speech is the vocal form of human communication. Speech or speaking. Spoken language; Discourse; Animal language, forms of animal communication that are considered to show similarities to human language Talking animal or speaking animal, any non-human animal which produces sounds or gestures resembling those of a human

  6. Cryptophasia - Wikipedia

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    Cryptophasia is the phenomenon of a language developed by twins (identical or fraternal) that only the two children can understand. [1] The word has its roots from the Greek crypto-, meaning secret, and -phasia, meaning speech. Most linguists associate cryptophasia with idioglossia, which is any language used by only one, or very few, people ...

  7. Paralanguage - Wikipedia

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    Speech signals arrive at a listener's ears with acoustic properties that may allow listeners to identify location of the speaker (sensing distance and direction, for example). Sound localization functions in a similar way also for non-speech sounds. The perspectival aspects of lip reading are more obvious and have more drastic effects when head ...

  8. Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...

  9. Heteroglossia - Wikipedia

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    The attempt to systematize language—to objectify, idealize and abstract it into a static set of rules and conventions for signification—is falsely posited as a descriptive or scientific activity, when in reality it is a form of socio-political activism. [7] According to Bakhtin, language is always a multiplicity of languages.