An aphasic person whose only language symptom is that she commits many semantic paraphasia errors probably has a deficit involving the
A)orthographic processing of words.
B)syntactic processing of words.
C)mental lexicon.
D)prosodic patterns of speech.

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Semantic paraphasias refer to the substitution of a word with a semantically similar but incorrect word (e.g. saying "car" instead of "bus"). This suggests a deficit in the mental lexicon, which is the internal dictionary of a person's knowledge of words and their meanings. This is different from orthographic processing (the visual aspect of reading and writing), syntactic processing (the grammatical structure of sentences), and prosodic patterns of speech (intonation and rhythm).

An Aphasic Person Whose Only Language Symptom Is That She