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Croot, Karen; Ballard, Kirrie; Leyton, Cristian E.; Hodges, John R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: The International Consensus Criteria for the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA; Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011) propose apraxia of speech (AOS) as 1 of 2 core features of nonfluent/agrammatic PPA and propose phonological errors or absence of motor speech disorder as features of logopenic PPA. We investigated the sensitivity and…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Aphasia, Phonology
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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