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Mondini, S.; Luzzatti, C.; Saletta, P.; Allamano, N.; Semenza, C. – Brain and Language, 2005
The processing of Prepositional compounds (typical Neo-latin noun-noun modifications where a head noun is modified by a prepositional phrase, e.g., mulino a vento, windmill) was preliminarily studied with a group of six agrammatic aphasic patients, and, in more detail, with a further agrammatic patient (MB). Omission was the most frequent error…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Patients, Aphasia
Braber, N.; Patterson, K.; Ellis, K.; Lambon Ralph, M.A. – Brain and Language, 2005
A previous study of 10 patients with Broca's aphasia demonstrated that the advantage for producing the past tense of irregular over regular verbs exhibited by these patients was eliminated when the two sets of past-tense forms were matched for phonological complexity (Bird, Lambon Ralph, Seidenberg, McClelland, & Patterson, 2003). The…
Descriptors: Patients, Morphemes, Sentences, Aphasia
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Alexiadou, Artemis; Stavrakaki, Stavroula – Brain and Language, 2006
In this paper, we investigate the performance of a Greek-English bilingual patient with Broca's aphasia and mild agrammatism on the placement of CP, MoodP, AspectP, and NegP-related adverbs, labeled specifier-type adverbs, and VP-related adverbs, labeled complement-type adverbs, by means of a constituent ordering task and a grammaticality judgment…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Bilingualism, Patients, Aphasia
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Janse, Esther – Brain and Language, 2006
Research has shown that Broca's and Wernicke's aphasic patients show different impairments in auditory lexical processing. The results of an experiment with form-overlapping primes showed an inhibitory effect of form-overlap for control adults and a weak inhibition trend for Broca's aphasic patients, but a facilitatory effect of form-overlap was…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Lexicology, Language Processing, Patients
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Devlin, Joseph T.; Watkins, Kate E. – Brain, 2007
Fifteen years ago, Pascual-Leone and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate speech production in pre-surgical epilepsy patients and in doing so, introduced a novel tool into language research. TMS can be used to non-invasively stimulate a specific cortical region and transiently disrupt information processing. These…
Descriptors: Patients, Language Research, Speech, Information Processing
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Fink, Martina; Churan, Jan; Wittmann, Marc – Brain and Language, 2006
Standard diagnostic procedures for assessing temporal-processing abilities of adult patients with aphasia have so far not been developed. In our study, temporal-order measurements were conducted using two different experimental procedures to identify a suitable measure for clinical studies. Additionally, phoneme-discrimination abilities were…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Phonemes, Language Processing, Patients
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Racette, Amelie; Bard, Celine; Peretz, Isabelle – Brain, 2006
A classic observation in neurology is that aphasics can sing words they cannot pronounce otherwise. To further assess this claim, we investigated the production of sung and spoken utterances in eight brain-damaged patients suffering from a variety of speech disorders as a consequence of a left-hemisphere lesion. In Experiment 1, the patients were…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Singing, Speech Communication, Recall (Psychology)
Misiurski, Cara; Blumstein, Sheila E.; Rissman, Jesse; Berman, Daniel – Brain and Language, 2005
This study examined the effects that the acoustic-phonetic structure of a stimulus exerts on the processes by which lexical candidates compete for activation. An auditory lexical decision paradigm was used to investigate whether shortening the VOT of an initial voiceless stop consonant in a real word results in the activation of the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Aphasia, Language Processing
Caramazza, A.; Capasso, R.; Capitani, E.; Miceli, G. – Brain and Language, 2005
We tested the core prediction of the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (TDH) of agrammatic Broca's aphasia, which contends that such patients' comprehension performance is normal for active reversible sentences but at chance level for passive reversible sentences. We analyzed the comprehension performance of 38 Italian Broca's aphasics with verified…
Descriptors: Patients, Language Processing, Sentences, Aphasia
Grindrod, C.M.; Baum, S.R. – Brain and Cognition, 2005
In the present study, a cross-modal semantic priming task was used to investigate the ability of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) nonfluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and non-brain-damaged (NBD) control subjects to use a discourse context to resolve lexically ambiguous words. Subjects first heard four-sentence discourse passages ending…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Figurative Language, Aphasia
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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
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Marczinski, Cecile A.; Kertesz, Andrew – Brain and Language, 2006
This study examined the impact of various degenerative dementias on access to semantic knowledge and the status of semantic representations. Patients with semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease were compared with elderly controls on tasks of category and letter fluency, with number of words generated, mean lexical…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Semantics, Alzheimers Disease, Aphasia
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Bastiaanse, Roelien; van Zonneveld, Ron – Brain and Language, 2006
Drai and Grodzinsky have statistically analyzed a large corpus of data on the comprehension of passives by patients with Broca's aphasia. The data come, according to Drai and Grodzinsky, from binary choice tasks. Among the languages that are analyzed are Dutch and German. Drai and Grodzinsky argue that Dutch and German speaking Broca patients…
Descriptors: Patients, Aphasia, Comprehension, Indo European Languages
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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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Klepousniotou, Ekaterini; Baum, Shari R. – Brain and Language, 2005
The present study investigated the abilities of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), and normal control individuals to access, in sentential biasing contexts, the multiple meanings of three types of ambiguous words, namely homonyms (e.g., ''punch''), metonymies (e.g., ''rabbit''), and metaphors (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Neurological Impairments, Aphasia
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