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

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يطلق باقة من النشاطات الرقمية الخاصة بشهر المحرم

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تختتم السلسلة الأولى لمشروع المحاضرات القرآنية العاشورائية في بابل

العتبة العباسية المقدسة تسلّم راية العزاء إلى تجمّع مواكب محافظة الديوانية

قسم الشؤون الفكرية يواصل إقامة المجالس الحسينية ضمن سلسلة (بيوت النعيم)

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

لكبح الجوع وخسارة الوزن.. "سر بسيط" في نظام جوكوفيتش ؟

هل يساعد الرجيم في علاج الأمراض العقلية؟

لحماية أسنان طفلك.. هذا الفيتامين يقلل خطر التسوس

أكل الطعام بسرعة.. طريق سريع إلى أمراض خطيرة

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

ما هي أفضل درجة حرارة لتكييف الهواء في السيارة؟

ذوبان الأنهار الجليدية يوقظ "عمالقة نائمة"!

9 يوليو يشهد أقصر يوم في التاريخ المسجل ؟!!

راتبه عشرات ملايين الدولارات.. زوكربرغ يخطف "عقل أبل"

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

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

The separation hypothesis

Theoretical implications: Against the separation of form and meaning in morphology

Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone? Summary

Conversion vs. -ize, -ify and -ate

Rival morphological processes -ize vs. -ate

Rival morphological processes -ize vs. -ify

Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone?