Agrammatism
Agrammatism
Agrammatism is a reduction in, or loss of, the production or comprehension of the syntactic elements of language, for example articles, prepositions, conjunctions, verb endings (i.e., the nonsubstantive components of language), whereas nouns and verbs are relatively spared. Despite this impoverishment of language, or "telegraphic speech", meaning is often still conveyed because of the high information content of verbs and nouns. Agrammatism is encountered in Broca’s type of nonfluent aphasia, associated with lesions of the posterior inferior part of the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere (Broca’s area). Agrammatic speech may also be dysprosodic.
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