رغم أن الكلمة تعتي إدخال حرف على الكلمة لإظهار المعني، إلا أن "الدلالي" قد تكون أكثر شمولاً في هذا السياق لأنها تتسع للأساليب الأخرى لإظهار المعني مثل تعبيرات الوجه والإيماءات
Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) refers to ways (other than speech) that are used to send a message from one person to another. We all use augmentative communication techniques, such as facial expressions, gestures, and writing, as part of our daily lives. In difficult listening situations (noisy rooms, for example), we tend to augment our words with even more gestures and exaggerated facial expressions

augmentative
Linguistics (of an affix or derived word) reinforcing the idea of the original word, especially by meaning ‘a large one of its kind’.

Augmentative
(كلمة دخل عليها حرف أو أكثر لتفيد التعظيم أو زيادة المعنى مثل الميم في شدقم (الواسع الشدق

In English the verb to augment also means to supplement and the order of these two adjectives in English denotes that augmentative is modifying alternative- hence the translation in Arabic where the term for agumentative modifies the term for alternative