paralexia


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paralexia

(ˌpærəˈlɛksɪə)
n
(Medicine) a disorder of the ability to read in which words and syllables are meaninglessly transposed
ˌparaˈlexic adj
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Newcombe, "Patterns of paralexia: a psycholinguistic approach," Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol.