agrammaphasia
English edit
Etymology edit
The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is + -phasia.
Noun edit
agrammaphasia (uncountable)
- (medicine, rare) A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
- 1983, Glossogenetics: the origin and evolution of language, page 240:
- On the other hand, when answering she always tended to limit her answer to the linguistically essential minimum, and sometimes she ended in some slight agrammaphasia […]
- 2013, Sara M Stinchfield, Speech Disorders, →ISBN:
- Mixed aphasia: characterized by such disorders as agrammaphasia, syntactical aphasia, word-salad speech, groping speech, repetitious speech or paraphasia.
- 2014, Christiane Fäcke, Manual of Language Acquisition, →ISBN, page 145:
- Broca's aphasia involves a deficit with regard to combining phonemes (word simplification associated with phonetic disintegration) and combining words (decrease in volume of voice, stereotypy, agrammaphasia).