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acataphasia

acataphasia Acataphasia is a speech disorder in which a person can understand and say words, but cannot put them together properly in a sentence.

Acataphasia is a speech disorder in which a person can understand and say words, but cannot put them together properly in a sentence. It is an aphasic problem affecting the syntactic, or sentence-order, relationships among words.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Acataphasia” (Acataphasia).
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