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This question has been studied previously in animal models but only sporadically in humans, whose anatomical and functional organization may differ from that of animals (e.g. unique verbal functions and Heschl's gyrus curvature).
Thus, prenatal exposure to low-level concentrations of PCBs, particularly PCB153, was associated with an overall deleterious effect on neuropsychological development at 4 years of age, including negative effects on executive function, verbal functions and visuospatial abilities, but not on motor development.
Table 4 summarizes the results obtained with tests of specific verbal functions.
Jakobson (1960) identified six verbal functions: expressive, directive, phatic, referential, poetic and metalinguistic.
The grouping of results suggests that verbal functions particularly could be affected by PCB exposure.
Subjects were tested at the beginning and end of each summer season on sensory and motor functions, attention and concentration, memory, visual functions, and verbal functions.
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Has it acquired a verbal function in modern American English?
To determine the effect of the lost copy, the scientists tested children with the deletion for psychotic symptoms and verbal functioning, which is affected in schizophrenia.
Clinical screening tools, such as the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), assess case severity on the basis of visual, motor, and verbal functioning [19].
UPSIT scores in NDS patients were significantly related with Vocabulary, Similarities, and Digit Symbol subtests, which are indicative of verbal functioning.
Hence for Abelard the basic analysis of a predicative statement recognizes that two fundamentally different linguistic categories are joined together: the name n and the simple verbal function V, combined in the well-formed sentence V(n).
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