language pathology

The study of all forms of involuntary, abnormal LANGUAGE behavior, especially when associated with medical conditions; also called speech pathology. The term is also used of the behaviors themselves: aphasia, for example, could be described as a type of language pathology. A practitioner of the subject is called (especially in the USA) a speech pathologist or (especially in the UK) a speech and language therapist, with speech therapist still commonly used in the UK, and language pathologist sometimes encountered elsewhere. The subject includes disorders of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and applies both to developmental abnormalities in children and to acquired abnormalities in children or adults. Any recognized area of linguistic structure and use is covered by the term, especially disorders in GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS, PHONOLOGY and PRAGMATICS. ‘Language pathology’ is broader in its implications than ‘speech pathology’, though in practice the subject-matter and professional expertise referred to by the two domains are similar. However, disorders of a primarily PHONETIC nature (such as dysarthria and dysphonia) are traditionally described as being disorders of SPEECH (in a narrow sense) as opposed to ‘language’, on the grounds that they lack any meaningful or symbolic function; and disorders of reading and writing are often excluded or marginalized in the study of speech pathology, whereas they are central to work in remedial educational settings. The term ‘pathology’ is itself controversial, because of its medical connotations: therapists are often unhappy about using it to refer to disorders (such as stuttering) which lack a clear medical cause.

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اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

فريق طبي في مستشفى الكفيل يجري عملية ناجحة لطفل يعاني من تشوّه ولاديّ بالنخاع الشوكي

المجمع العلمي يقيم محاضرة متخصِّصة في فنِّ الإقراء بمحافظة صلاح الدين

جامعة الكفيل تنظم سلسلة محاضرات عن التعليم الطبي لملاكاتها التدريسية

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يطلق خدمة ربط المؤلِّفين العراقيين بالمنصّات البحثية العالمية

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الآخبار الصحية

كنز غذائي على طبقك.. ماذا تفعل السبانخ بجسمك؟

ما لا يتوقعه أحد.. "سر غذائي" في الجبن الدسم

لتحسين الهضم والنوم.. هذا أفضل وقت لتناول العشاء

10 طرق بسيطة وغير مألوفة لحرق المزيد من السعرات يوميا

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

سابقة بعالم الطيران.. طائرة تقرر الهبوط بنفسها بعد ظرف طارئ

"الإنفلونزا الخارقة" تكتسح دول العالم.. وتثير قلقا كبيرا

مرحلة ما قبل الأعراض.. دواء جديد يستهدف "شرارة" الزهايمر

إزالة ثاني أكسيد الكربون من الغلاف الجوي.. ما دور المحيطات والبحار؟

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مواضيع ذات صلة

Constituent structure

A typology of word structure

Analyzing position classes

Representing word structure

Different kinds of morphemes

Morphemes Definition of “morpheme”

Analyzing word structure

Mirror in nominal morphology

Appendix 2: Hapax legomena from the Cobuild corpus

Appendix 1: 20th century neologisms from the OED

Morphological Productivity Structural Constraints in English Derivation Conclusion

Verbal derivation and the separation hypothesis