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Damage to the Broca's area of the brain may lead to Broca's aphasia. Broca's aphasics aren't able to plan the motor sequences used in speech.

Problems-1. Production difficulty, missing function words
Example-Dog..cat...run..store...tired..happy

2. Difficulty understanding more complex syntactical relationships

Example-The lion that the tiger chased watched the leopard.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_27AiDP0Dw

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