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Word level

Deutsch: Wortebene / Español: Nivel de palabra / Português: Nível de palavra / Français: Niveau de mot / Italiano: Livello della parola

Word level refers to a level of written language perception in which a visual stimulus is represented as a familiar word.

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Word recognition

Word recognition refers to the ability to read or pronounce a word; usually implies that the word is recognized immediately by sight and that the child does not need to apply word analysis skills.

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Word salad

Word salad refer to unconnected words and word sounds. This feature of Wernicke's Aphasia is a deficit in placing words together in proper grammatical and syntactical form. This condition is more formally known as Paragrammatism or Extended Paraphasia, and it is characterized by running speech that is logically incoherent, often sounding like an exotic foreign language.

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Word spurt

word spurt refers to the rapid increase in word (mostly noun) learning, occurring at about 18 months of age. It is the increase in the rate at which children acquire new words; it occurs sometime around the achievement of a 50-word vocabulary, or about 18 months of age.

Word-initial cohort

word-initial cohort is a term in auditory word recognition that refers to the initial set of lexical candidates activated by the comprehender.

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Word-recognition method

word-recognition method refers to a method for learning to read in which children come to recognize words through repeated exposure to them.

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Word-superiority effect

The Word-superiority effect appears when letters are read more easily when they are embedded in words than when they are presented either in isolation or with letters that do not form words.

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Worden Complicated grief reactions

- Worden Complicated grief reactions : Worden Complicated grief reactions refer to grief reactions or mourning processes that are abnormal in the sense of being deviant and unhealthy, thereby overwhelming bereaved persons, leading to maladaptive behavior, and inhibiting progress toward satisfactory outcomes in mourning; Worden (2002) identified four (4) types: chronic, delayed, exaggerated, or masked grief reactions Complicated grief reactions is also called Complicated mourning.

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