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Abstract Pathologic linguistics is an interdisciplinary field with a focus on the study of language impairment and various kinds of damages in the process of language transmission. Despite its late start in China, pathologic linguistics has been developing rapidly in China. In recent years, the rapid development of pathologic linguistics at home and abroad shows that one of the important trends of this discipline is that theoretical linguistics is receiving an increasing attention and findings of theoretical linguistics are being applied to pathologic linguistics. This study provides a review of the contributions of theoretical linguistics to pathologic linguistics. With the aid of various clinical cases, the review demonstrates the application of theoretical linguistics in the description, interpretation, assessment and intervention of language impairments. These achievements include not only phonetic, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic studies, but also studies on the basic issues of contemporary linguistics. Given the weak linguistic foundation of pathologic linguistics and an accelerating integration of linguistics and other disciplines, this study argues that a large number of researchers with linguistic background are needed to speed up the interdisciplinary development of pathologic linguistics.
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