agrammaphasia

agrammaphasia

English

Etymology

The first element is related to agrammatical; the second is +‎ -phasia.

Noun

agrammaphasia (uncountable)

1. (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).