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Themistocleous, Charalambos; Neophytou, Kyriaki; Rapp, Brenda; Tsapkini, Kyrana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The evaluation of spelling performance in aphasia reveals deficits in written language and can facilitate the design of targeted writing treatments. Nevertheless, manual scoring of spelling performance is time-consuming, laborious, and error prone. We propose a novel method based on the use of distance metrics to automatically score…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Spelling, Scores
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Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi-Maria; Tsapkini, Kyrana – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity refers to the reactivation of the postverbal trace by retrieving the mnemonic representation…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, Patients, Sentences
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Peristeri, Eleni; Tsapkini, Kyrana – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The aim of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Bilingual Aphasia Test as a measure of language impairment in a Greek-speaking Broca's aphasic population and to investigate relationships with the same aphasic group's performance on the Greek version of the short form of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination battery, mainly…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Syntax, Aphasia