A patient with damage to Broca's area attempts to describe a car accident; which language production deficit is most likely?

A)Fluent but nonsensical speech output

B)Impaired phoneme discrimination ability

C)Effortful, telegraphic, agrammatic speech✓

D)Intact syntax, impaired semantic understanding

💡 Explanation

Broca's area supports speech production; therefore, damage typically results in expressive aphasia. This manifests as difficulty forming grammatically correct sentences, resulting in slow, effortful, and telegraphic speech, because the motor planning for articulation is impaired rather than auditory comprehension.

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A patient with damage to Broca's area attempts to describe a car accident; which language production deficit is most likely?

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