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The inability to inflect speech with the usual emotional color that the right hemisphere typically contributes to language. Characterized by a monotonic or “robotic” speech pattern.

A language deficit arising from damage to the area in the frontal lobe and characterized by difficulty in the production of speech.

An area in the ventral posterior region of the left frontal lobe that helps mediate language expression; named after the nineteenth-century anatomist and neurologist Paul Broca.

Pertaining to the connectivity of neural networks whose connection weights vary according to experience.

Typically an unvoiced (atonal) element of speech that begins and/or ends syllables.

One of several frequencies that represent the natural resonances of different components of the vocal tract.

The system of rules implicit in a language.

The portion of the upper respiratory tract that lies between the trachea and the pharynx. 

The misperception of speech sounds due to conflicting visual stimuli.

Typically refers to artificial network of interconnected nodes whose connections change in strength as a means of solving problems. Can also be used as a synonym for a neuronal circuit.

One of about 200 different sound stimuli the human vocal apparatus can produce. A subset of these is used in any given spoken language (approximately 40 in English).

A language deficit that arises from damage to one of the cortical language areas, typically in the left hemisphere.