Key Points. 1  Cancer treatment can cause mouth and throat problems. 2  Oral complications may be caused by the treatment itself (directly) or by side effects of the treatment (indirectly). 3  Complications may be acute (short-term) or chronic (long-lasting).
Language deprivation. Language deprivation is associated with the lack of linguistic stimuli that are necessary for the language acquisition processes in an individual, usually in a very impoverished environment. Experiments involving language deprivation are very scarce due to the ethical controversy associated with it.
Language death may affect any language idiom, including dialects and languages. Language death should not be confused with language attrition (also called language loss), which describes the loss of proficiency in a language at the individual level. 1 Types.