| Term | Definition |
|---|
| referent | the object that a word points to |
| sense | the additional semantic meaning that a word possesses; dictionary definition |
| functional attribute | the meaning that a word has given your knowledge of world |
| semantic processing | usually relates to the cognitive act of accessing stored knowledge about the world |
| semantics | the study of the relationship between words and the stores of knowledge they signify |
| phonological form | spoken form |
| orthographic form | written form |
| conduction aphasia | relatively rare; defective speech, writing, reading aloud, circumlocutory, literal paraphasias disproportionate difficulty with function words, especially in repetition tasks |
| crossed aphasia | a RH CVA in a right handed individual that leads to aphasia; 96% of right handed people have LH language |
| musicians | a LH CVA in a professional musician involving language areas will also affect ability to compose music, reading musical notation |
| synergistic | progress in one language is accompanied by progress in another |
| differential | impairment is of a different degree in each language |
| parallel | all languages similarly impaired and restored at the same rate |
| antagonistic | one language regresses as other progresses |
| successive | one language does not reappear until the other has been restored |
| selective | patient does not regain one or more of their languages |
| nonreversible sentence | The mailman delivered the package. (The package cannot deliver the mailman) |
| reversible sentence | The dog chased the cat (the cat could chase the dog) |
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