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Acculturation . The process by which an individual from a different culture or nationality has adapted his or her behavior, beliefs, and attitudes to be consistent with those of the dominant culture in which he or she is now living . Affordances . Aspects of an object's structure that reliably predict how it should be held, manipulated, or used . Agglutinative morphology . System of word formation in which a large array of affixes may be attached to a root morpheme to express complex meanings. As in the Finnish language . Agraphia . A spelling disorder acquired following brain damage . Allele . A DNA sequence that varies across individuals, either in a gene or a noncoding region . Alphabetic principle . Usable knowledge of the fact that graphic forms represent phonemic segments of speech, such that whenever a particular phoneme occurs it can be represented by a particular letter . American sign language (ASL) . The sign language of the American deaf community . Anaphor . A linguistic device that is used to refer back to a previously mentioned or implied concept . Anomia . Word-finding difficulties following brain damage . Association analysis . Method for testing whether a risk-allele is related to a trait . Attractor . The tendency for a recurrent connectionist network to settle to a stable pattern of activity in response to a given input such that, if the ... log in or subscribe to read full text