Main description:

Linguistic Analyses of Aphasic Language represents results from linguistic and neurolinguistic research on aphasic language performance. The contributions encompass all linguistic levels, ranging from phonetics to discourse, and present results on languages other than English. The findings and applied methods are both relevant to the study of aphasia in general and to cross-linguistic analyses. Furthermore, they have clear implications for language and speech therapy and thus show the importance of linguistic concepts for language testing and therapeutic intervention.

Contents:

1 A Linguistic Classification of Phonological Paraphasias.- 2 Improvement of Coarticulation in Broca's Aphasia.- 3 Sociophonology and Aphasia.- 4 Phrasal Morphophonemics in Breton-Speaking Wernicke's Aphasics.- 5 Word Formation in Italian-Speaking Wernicke's and Broca's Aphasics.- 6 Syntactic and Semantic Factors of Auditory Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia.- 7 On Text Disturbances in Aphasia.- 8 Aspects of Automatic versus Controlled Processing, Monitoring, Metalinguistic Tasks, and Related Phenomena in Aphasia.- References.