phonological dyslexia

a form of acquired dyslexia characterized primarily by difficulties in reading pronounceable nonwords. Semantic errors are not seen in this type of dyslexia, a feature that distinguishes it from deep dyslexia. Phonological dyslexia manifested as a form of developmental dyslexia has also been described. See also surface dyslexia. [first described in 1979 by Marie-France Beauvois and Jacqueline Derouesné]

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critical region

a range of values that may be obtained from a statistical procedure that would lead to rejecting a specific claim about a population. More specifically, it is the portion of a probability distribution containing the values for a test statistic that would result in rejection of a null hypothesis in favor of its corresponding alternative hypothesis. Also called rejection region. Compare acceptance region.