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Schmidt, Darren; Buchanan, Lori – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Aphasia is a total or partial loss of the ability to produce or understand language, usually caused by brain disease or injury. In this case study, the aphasic patient (BMW) has a profound impairment of oral production and a very moderate impairment in comprehension. Several years of informal observation lead to the current study that contrasts…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Nouns, Neurolinguistics, Linguistic Performance
Novaes, Celso – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Two aphasic patients speaking Brazilian Portuguese and presenting the characteristics of Broca's aphasics were analyzed in relation to their capacities to express null subjects in two different grammatical persons: 1st and 3rd persons. The analysis consisted of looking at the means obtained from the two aphasic patients and their individual…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Neuropsychology, Neurolinguistics, Case Studies