syntactic aphasia
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Related to syntactic aphasia: receptive aphasia, expressive aphasia, jargon aphasia, semantic aphasia
syn·tac·tic a·pha·si·a
aphasia in which the words are fairly well pronounced but are spoken in short phrases or poorly constructed sentences without articles, prepositions, or conjunctions.
syntactic aphasia
Inability to use proper grammatical constructions.
See also: aphasia