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2. Aphasia: What to Know - WebMD

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   Aphasia is a disorder that happens when damage happens to the language and speech parts of your brain. It affects your ability to communicate, but not your intelligence. The way your communication ...

3. How to Stop Stuttering or Stammering: 5 Tips - Healthline

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   1. Slow down. One of the more effective ways to stop a stutter is to try to speak more slowly. Rushing to complete a thought can cause you to stammer, speed up your speech, or have trouble getting ...

4. Common Speech and Language Disorders - WebMD

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   Only speak a few words by 17 months. Can’t put two words together by 2 years. Have problems when they play and talk with other kids from the ages of 2 to 3. There are two major types of language ...

5. Positive Self-Talk: Benefits and Techniques - Healthline

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   Furthermore, positive self-talk and a more optimistic outlook can have other health benefits, including: increased vitality. greater life satisfaction. improved immune function. reduced pain ...

6. Foreign Accent Syndrome: Is It a Real Condition? - Healthline

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   Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) happens when you suddenly start to speak with a different accent. It’s most common after a head injury, stroke, or some other type of damage to the brain. Although ...

7. Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language - Wikipedia

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   The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT) is a data set of samples of spoken English that was compiled in 1993 from tape recorded and transcribed conversations by teens between the ages of 13 and 17 in schools throughout London, England. [1] [2] This corpus, which has been tagged for part of speech using the CLAWS 6 tagset, is one of ...

8. English language - Wikipedia

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   English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

9. Learning English (version of English) - Wikipedia

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   Learning English (previously known as Special English) is a controlled version of the English language first used on October 19, 1959, and still presented daily by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America (VOA). World news and other programs are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. Reporters avoid idioms and use a core ...