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A-Z 347dysphasia developmental aphasia,developmental dysphasiadysphonia [Grk dysphōnía ‘roughness ofsound’]In speech-language pathology, term covering a number of voice disorders caused bydeficient phonatory techniques, growths or infections in the larynx, or psychologicalfactors, such as stress or depression. ( also aphonia)dyspraxiaapraxiadysprosody [Grk prosōidía ‘voicemodulation’]In neurolinguistics, term referring to a grave impairment of prosody, such as adisturbance in the contour, intensity, or the temporal structure of the utterance. Forinstance, differences between main and secondary stress in syllables may be leveled sothat all syllables are spoken with the same intensity. ( also language disorder,specific language impairment)ReferencesBaltaxe, C. and J.Q.Simmons. 1985. Prosodic development in normal and autistic children. In E.Schoper and G.V.Mesibov (eds), Communication problems in autism. New York. 95–125.Burton, A. 1981. Linguistic analysis of dysprosody: a case study. UCLA Working Papers inCognitive Linguistics 3. 189–98.Von Benda, U. and H.Amorosa. 1987. Intonation as a potential diagnostic tool in developmentaldisorders of speech communication. In Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (eds),Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Tallinn. Vol. 5, 160–3.articulation disorder, language disorder