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Broca's aphasia Speech disorder caused by damage to Broca's area of the brain. People with this condition use mainly simple content words, omitting function words; they have trouble parsing and making grammaticality judgements.
Example:Ah...Monday...ah Dad and Paul...and Dad...hospital. Two...ah...doctors...and ah...thirty minutes...and yes...ah... hospital. And er Wednesday...nine o'clock. And er Thursday, ten o'clock...doctors. Two doctors...and ah...teeth. (From Goodglass, 1976, p278).
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Topics: Architecture of the processing system, Language impairment