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2. Social (pragmatic) communication disorder - Wikipedia

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   Making and maintaining friendships and relationships because of delayed language development; Distinguishing offensive remarks; According to Bishop and Norbury (2002), children with semantic pragmatic disorder can have fluent, complex articulated expressive language but exhibit problems with the way their language is used.

3. Speech segmentation - Wikipedia

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   For most spoken languages, the boundaries between lexical units are difficult to identify; phonotactics are one answer to this issue. One might expect that the inter-word spaces used by many written languages like English or Spanish would correspond to pauses in their spoken version, but that is true only in very slow speech, when the speaker deliberately inserts those pauses.

4. Coordinated management of meaning - Wikipedia

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   Relationship is the higher level of the meaning, where "relational boundaries in that parameters are established for attitudes and behaviors." [1] This building block is fairly easy to understand as it is the dynamic of what connects two (or more) individuals during an exchange of information.

5. Verbal fluency test - Wikipedia

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   Performance in verbal fluency tests show a number of consistent characteristics in both children and adults: [13] [6] [14] A declining rate of production of new items over the duration of the task, which was long discussed as following either an exponential [15] or a hyperbolic [16] time course, [7] which finally could be shown to be special cases of a unifying power function (the fused ...

6. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Adults, especially caregivers, speaking to young children tend to imitate childlike speech by using higher and more variable pitch, as well as an exaggerated stress. These prosodic characteristics are thought to assist children in acquiring phonemes, segmenting words, and recognizing phrasal boundaries.

7. Speech–language pathology - Wikipedia

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   Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication ...

8. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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   According to Charles W. Morris, pragmatics tries to understand the relationship between signs and their users, while semantics tends to focus on the actual objects or ideas to which a word refers, and syntax (or "syntactics") examines relationships among signs or symbols. Semantics is the literal meaning of an idea whereas pragmatics is the ...

9. Language processing in the brain - Wikipedia

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   In the last two decades, significant advances occurred in our understanding of the neural processing of sounds in primates. Initially by recording of neural activity in the auditory cortices of monkeys [18] [19] and later elaborated via histological staining [20] [21] [22] and fMRI scanning studies, [23] 3 auditory fields were identified in the primary auditory cortex, and 9 associative ...