Agrammatism

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Agrammatism is a form of expressive aphasia that refers to the inability to speak in a grammatically correct fashion. ^[1]. People with agrammatism may have telegraphic speech ^[2], a unique speech pattern with simplified formation of sentences, akin to that found in telegraph messages. Common errors made in agrammatism include jargon aphasia ^[3], or the use of meaningless or neologistic phrases, and syntactical aphasia^[4], wherein necessary elements for sentence construction are missing. Common errors include errors in tense, number, and gender^[5].

Agrammatism is seen in many brain disease syndromes, including Broca's aphasia and traumatic brain injury.

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1. ^ Dorland's Medical Dictionary, Agrammatism, [1]
2. ^ Goodglass H. Agrammatism in aphasiology. Clin Neurosci. 1997;4(2):51-6. [2]
3. ^ Moses MS, Nickels LA, Sheard C. Disentangling the web: neologistic perseverative errors in jargon aphasia. Neurocase. 2004 Dec;10(6):452-61. [3]
4. ^ Knibb JA, Xuereb JH, Patterson K, Hodges JR. Clinical and pathological characterization of progressive aphasia. Ann Neurol. 2006 Jan;59(1):156-65. [4]
5. ^ Agrammatism in aphasics and normals. http://psych.colorado.edu/~munakata/csh/Dick_et_al.2001.pdf