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If a patient presents with loss of speech of sudden onset, one should try to decide, although this is not of the utmost diagnostic importance, whether he has anarthria i.e., loss of the motor faculty to pronounce spoken speech (which requires the coordinated activities of respiration, phonation, and articulation), or whether he is aphasic, i.e., has a supra-modal disturbance of language.
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Poeck, K. (1985). Sudden Loss of Speech. In: Diagnostic Decisions in Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70693-6_33
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