An Aphasic Person Whose Only Language Symptom Is That She

question 52

Multiple Choice

An aphasic person whose only language symptom is that she commits many semantic paraphasia errors probably has a deficit involving the

• A)orthographic processing of words.
• B)syntactic processing of words.
• C)mental lexicon.
• D)prosodic patterns of speech.

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Definitions:

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DSM Code Number

A numerical code assigned to each diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for classification purposes.

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