Cross-linguistic research in aphasia: An overview
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Cross-linguistic research in aphasia: an overview.
Most of us would like to believe that the different patterns of language breakdown observed in aphasic patients reflect the way that the human mind and brain are organized for language. However, because so much modern research on aphasia has been carried out in English, it is difficult to separate universal mechanisms from language-specific content. Crosslinguistic com-parisons permit us to dis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain and Language
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0093-934X
DOI: 10.1016/0093-934x(91)90149-u