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Speech and language research for Broca's aphasia and more Grammatical Disorders in Aphasia: A Neurolinguistic Perspective reviews research by leading authorities to examine the relationships between language and the brain. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of linguistic theory and the neurolinguistic perspective, the following pages cover language perception and speech production after a variety of brain injuries. Topics include semantic composition, linguistic representation, verb finding, moving verbs, verb complexity and more, painting a comprehensive picture of language in the agrammatic patient.

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Author:   Roelien Bastiaanse ,  Yosef Grodzinsky ,  Roelien Bastiaanse
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Whurr Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.444kg
ISBN:  

9781861561350

ISBN 10:   1861561350
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

An introduction to syntax. The processing of long distance dependencies in normal listeners: Evidence for form-driven activation. Neuroanatomical organization of sentential processing operations: evidence from aphasia on the (modular) processing of discontinuous dependencies. Semantic composition: processing parameters and neuroanatomical considerations. Syntactic displacement in Broca's agrammatic aphasia. Levels of linguistic representation in Broca's aphasia: implicitness and referentiality of arguments. Verb finding problems in Broca's aphasia: the influence of transitivity. Effect of verb complexity on agrammatic aphasics. Sentence production. Moving verbs in agrammatic production. Verb retrieval, verb inflection and negation in agrammatic aphasia. A clinical assessment of verbs in an aggrammatic patient.

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Roelien Bastiaanse and Yosef Grodzinsky are the authors of Grammatical Disorders in Aphasia: A Neuro-Linguistic Perspective, published by Wiley.

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