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Neologisms and jargon are present when patients engage in discourse and when they answer questions (Weinstein and Puig-Antich 1974). As recovery progresses, they often show a significant reduction in neologisms with increased numbers of indefinite pronouns, definitions, circumlocutions, hesitations and confabulations (Buckingham and Kertesz 1976; Green 1969; Kertesz and Benson, 1970; Lecours and Joanette, 1980). They also produce stereotypic responses, clichés, malapropisms and puns instead of neologisms to fill gaps when word-finding difficulties exist (Weinstein and Puig-Antich 1974).
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