Sunday, April 29, 2012

Brain & Language ch 2 #8

Broca's asphasia is characterized by labored speech and certain kinds of word-finding difficulties, but is primarily a disorder that affects a person's ability to form sentences with the rules of syntax. (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams, 2011 p. 47)

people with Wernicke's asphasia produce fluent speech with good intonation, and they may largely adhere to the rules of syntax.  However, their language is often semantically incoherent.  (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams, 2011 p. 48)

a.  Wernicke's
b.  Broca's
c.  Wernicke's
d.  Broca's



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