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Ruggeri, Massimiliano; Biagioli, Clelia; Ricci, Monica; Gerace, Carmela; Blundo, Carlo – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Despite initial underreporting of language dysfunctions in corticobasal syndrome (CBS), aphasia is now recognized as a frequent feature of this disease. Aphasia in CBS seems clinically overlying to a non-fluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfaPPA), which is also a clinical phenotype associated with corticobasal degeneration…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Speech Impairments, Neurological Impairments, Stuttering
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Chan, Sharon; Tsigka, Styliani; Boschetti, Federico; Capasso, Rita – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The objective of this research is to provide an improved automated computational tool to study aphasic production. Using the speech production of Italian aphasic patients, the present study demonstrates the possibility of applying an integrated algorithm to automatically assess and generate error patterns typical of aphasic speech. Philological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Speech Communication, Linguistics
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Zanini, Sergio; Angeli, Valentina; Tavano, Alessandro – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We report on the case of an elderly bilingual woman presenting with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. The participant's native language was Friulian (L1), a predominantly oral Romance language, and her second language was Italian (L2), formally learned at primary school in oral and written forms. We investigated her linguistic abilities…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Syntax, Aphasia
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Cobianchi, Andrea – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2010
The study is aimed at identifying hemispheric language dominance in both the right-handed and left-handed participants. Eighteen right-handed and 18 left-handed young volunteers were invited to listen for 80 times to a 720 ms duration Italian word. Signals from 16 electrodes were averaged and displayed both as traces and maps. When the word was…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Aphasia, Patients, Language Processing
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Ciaghi, Maddalena; Pancheri, Elisa; Miceli, Gabriele – Brain and Language, 2010
We studied the reading performance of 340 consecutive, Italian-speaking aphasics in order to evaluate the clinical features of deep dyslexia, the functional impairments underlying semantic paralexias, and their neuranatomical correlates. Semantic paralexias were observed in 9/340 subjects (2.4%). Our data and a review of the literature show that…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Semantics, Dyslexia, Aphasia
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Tschirren, Muriel; Laganaro, Marina; Michel, Patrik; Martory, Marie-Dominique; Di Pietro, Marie; Abutalebi, Jubin; Annoni, Jean-Marie – Brain and Language, 2011
Purpose: Bilingual aphasia generally affects both languages. However, the age of acquisition of the second language (L2) seems to play a role in the anatomo-functional correlation of the syntactical/grammatical processes, thus potentially influencing the L2 syntactic impairment following a stroke. The present study aims to analyze the influence of…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Patients, French, Bilingualism
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Drai, Dan; Grodzinsky, Yosef – Brain and Language, 2006
We respond to critical comments and consider alternative statistical and syntactic analyses of our target paper which analyzed comprehension scores of Broca's aphasic patients from multiple sentence types in many languages, and showed that Movement but not Complexity or Mood are factors in the receptive deficit of these patients. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Patients, Comprehension, Sentences, Aphasia
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Scarna, Antonina; Ellis, Andrew W. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
Studied a bilingual Italian-English aphasic patient who was very poor in categorizing Italian nouns for grammatical gender in explicit metalinguistic tasks, and was at chance when gender could not be inferred from the word's phonology. However, she showed a good ability to modify adjectives to match the gender of nouns in a task that involved…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Bilingualism, English, Grammar
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Mondini, Sara; Luzzatti, Claudio; Zonca, Giusy; Pistarini, Caterina; Semenza, Carlo – Brain and Language, 2004
This study seeks information on the mental representation of Verb-Noun (VN) nominal compounds through neuropsychological methods. The lexical retrieval of compound nouns is tested in 30 aphasic patients using a visual confrontation naming task. The target names are VN compounds, Noun-Noun (NN) compounds, and long morphologically simple nouns…
Descriptors: Patients, Nouns, Aphasia, Case Studies
De Agostini, Maria – Langages, 1977
A report on research on agraphia using subjects afflicted with sensory aphasia. It compares performance in Italian, a phonetic language, with performance in French. The disorders in the Italian language appear less varied than in French. (Text is in French.)
Descriptors: Aphasia, French, Italian, Language Handicaps