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Chapter Ten
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Undergraduate 2
10/31/2014

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aphasia
Definition
Partial or total inability to convey ideas in language or to understand language, as a result of damage to the brain.
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Broca's aphasia
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Aphasia caused by damage to ---- area, (area in the cortex at the left hemisphere of the brain), because of which a speaker finds it difficult, if not impossible, to form comprehensible sentences.
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creole
Definition
Full-fledged language developed from a pidgin that has become the natural language of a speech community once children are born into it and develop the pidgin in the expected course of language acquisition.
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dyslexia
Definition
Learning disorder in which recognizing and comprehending written words is relatively difficult.
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parentese
Definition
Version of language that adults use when talking to young children.
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pidgin
Definition
Highly simplified communicative system that arises when adult speakers who share no common language need to communicate with each other.
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Wernicke's aphasia
Definition
Aphasia caused by damage to ---- area, (area in the cortex of the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere of the brain), because of which the speaker finds it difficult to understand speech.
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