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PRONUNCIATION OF WORD DEAFNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WORD DEAFNESS

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Word deafness is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WORD DEAFNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Auditory verbal agnosia

Auditory verbal agnosia , also known as pure word deafness, is the inability to comprehend speech. Individuals with this disorder lose the ability to understand language, repeat words, and write from dictation. However, spontaneous speaking, reading, and writing are preserved. Individuals who exhibit pure word deafness are also still able to recognize non-verbal sounds. Sometimes, this agnosia is preceded by cortical deafness; however, this is not always the case. Researchers have documented that in most patients exhibiting auditory verbal agnosia, the discrimination of consonants is more difficult than that of vowels, but as with most neurological disorders, there is variation among patients.

Definition of word deafness in the English dictionary

The definition of word deafness in the dictionary is loss of ability to understand spoken words, esp as the result of a cerebral lesion Also called: auditory aphasia.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORD DEAFNESS

word association
word blindness
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word for word
word formation
word game
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Word of God
word of honour
word of mouth
word order
word picture
word processing
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word square
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WORDS THAT END LIKE WORD DEAFNESS

aloofness
awareness
bluffness
briefness
business
darkness
deafness
dowfness
dwarfness
fitness
gruffness
halfness
in the wilderness
naffness
selfness
stiffness
tone deafness
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wellness

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Translator English - Chinese

词聋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sordera verbal
570 millions of speakers

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word deafness
510 millions of speakers

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शब्द बहरापन
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ar

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كلمة الصمم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

слово глухота
278 millions of speakers

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palavra surdez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শব্দ বধিরতা
260 millions of speakers

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surdité verbale
220 millions of speakers

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Pekak perkataan
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Worttaubheit
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ワード難聴
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단어 난청
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Tembung tuli
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từ điếc
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வார்த்தை செவிடு
75 millions of speakers

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शब्द बहिरेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kelime sağırlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parola di sordità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

słowo głuchota
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Translator English - Ukrainian

слово глухота
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

surditate cuvânt
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λέξη κώφωση
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Translator English - Afrikaans

woord doofheid
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Translator English - Swedish

ord dövhet
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

ordet døvhet
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORD DEAFNESS»

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Principles of Neuropsychological Assessment with Hispanics: ...
To make this distinction, word blindness and word deafness are referred to here as “pure,” denoting their complete inability to comprehend the respective language modality (Benson, 1993). At this point, it is worth discussing these two ...
Antolin M. Llorente, 2007
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Neurology in Clinical Practice: Principles of diagnosis and ...
Pure word deafness is distinguished from cortical deafness by the patient's relative preservation of primary sensory ... Unlike the patient with transcortical sensory aphasia, the patient with pure word deafness has impaired word repetition.
Walter George Bradley, 2004
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Clinical Neuropsychology
With few exceptions, pure word deafness has been associated with bilateral, symmetric cortical–subcortical lesions involving the anterior part of the superior temporal gyri with some sparing of Heschl's gyrus, particularly on the left.
Kenneth M. Heilman James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Clinical and Health Psychology, Chair of the Department of Neurology Residency Program University of Florida College of Medicine Edward Valenstein William L. and Janice M. Neely Professors of Neurology, Gainesville, 2003
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Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language ...
pure word deafness or auditory verbal agnosia, which is defined by Praamstra et al.(1991)asbeing characterized by a selective impairment of auditory verbal comprehensionwithpreservation ofotherlanguage functions.The conditioninits ...
John C. L. Ingram, 2007
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Aphasia and Related Neurogenic Communication Disorders
Thus, Franklin describes patients with a deficit corresponding to pure word deafness (word sound deafness); a lexical-level deficit (word form deafness, but also see Kohn & Friedman's [1986] description of “pre-access word meaning ...
Ilias Papathanasiou, Patrick Coppens, Constantin Potagas, 2012
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Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience
Wohlfart G, Lindgren A, Jernelius B: Clinical picture and morbid anatomy in a case of "pure word deafness." J Nerv Ment Dis 1 16:818-827, 1952. 20. Leicester J: Central deafness and subcortical motor aphasia. Brain Lang 10:224-242, 1980 .
Todd E. Feinberg, Martha J. Farah, 2000
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The Handbook of Speech Perception
Pure word deafness is particularly relevant to matters of anatomical localization insofar as the deficit can reveal which components of speech perception are lateralized to the left hemisphere. The data are not entirely transparent. Pure word ...
David Pisoni, Robert Remez, 2008
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Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective
In Wernicke aphasia-Type I, word-deafness is of a greater degree than word- blindness. Word-deafness refers to an inability to identify the sounds of language despite intact hearing and preserved ability to identify meaningful nonverbal ...
David Frank Benson, Alfredo Ardila, 1996
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The Psychology of Language: From Data to Theory
Patients with pure word deafness can speak, read, and write quite normally, but cannot understand speech, even though their hearing is otherwise normal (see Saffran, Marin, & YeniKomshian, 1976, for a case history). Patients with pure word ...
Trevor A. Harley, 2013
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The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders
Three forms of auditory agnosia have been identified: auditory verbal agnosia ( pure word deafness), auditory sound agnosia (nonverbal agnosia), and cortical deafness. Auditory Verbal Agnosia Also called pure word deafness, auditory verbal ...
Argye Hillis, 2013

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORD DEAFNESS»

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Pure Word Deafness Means Woman Can Hear Sounds But Not Words
A 29-year-old woman developed an extremely rare condition in which she temporarily lost the ability to hear words, though she could hear other sounds, ... «Huffington Post, Oct 13»

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