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Digging beneath the Surface Behavioral and Neural Indices of Lexical Access during Idiom Comprehension in Aphasia: A Multi-Modal Approach
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Brumm, Kathleen Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This project examines spoken language comprehension in Broca's aphasia, a non-fluent language disorder acquired subsequent to stroke. Broca's aphasics demonstrate impaired comprehension for complex sentence constructions. To account for this deficit, one current processing theory claims that Broca's patients retain intrinsic linguistic knowledge,…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Aphasia, Speech
Do You Hear Voices? Problems in Assessment of Mental Status in Deaf Persons with Severe Language Deprivation
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Glickman, Neil – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2007
When mental health clinicians perform mental status examinations, they examine the language patterns of patients because abnormal language patterns, sometimes referred to as language dysfluency, may indicate a thought disorder. Performing such examinations with deaf patients is a far more complex task, especially with traditionally underserved…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Tests, Patients, Language Patterns
Ideational Gestures and Speech in Brain-Damaged Subjects.
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Hadar, U.; Burstein, A.; Krauss, R.; Soroker, N. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Compares speech-related (coverbal) gestures in brain-damaged patients (aphasics and visuo-spatial deficits) and in matched controls. Results suggest ideational gestures probably facilitate word retrieval and reflect transfer of information between propositional and non-propositional representations during message construction, and that conceptual…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Body Language, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Language and the Brain. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics.
Obler, Loraine K.; Gjerlow, Kris – 1999
This book examines how the brain enables people to speak creatively and build up an understanding of language. The discussion looks at the linguistic and neuro-anatomical underpinnings of language and considers how language skills can systematically break down in individuals with different types of brain damage. By studying children with language…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aphasia, Bilingualism, Dementia
Effects of Age and Education on the Lexico-Semantic Content of Connected Speech in Adults.
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Le Dorze, Guylaine; Bedard, Christine – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998
Connected speech of 134 healthy, Canadian French-speaking adults, grouped according to age and education level, was analyzed using an aphasia battery. Results demonstrated that older subjects with less education produced fewer content units and were less efficient in transmitting lexico-semantic information. Effects of age and education level on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age Differences, Aphasia
Evaluating Language. Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (Essex, England, United Kingdom, September 1992).
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students