The speech of individuals with agrammatism is generally characterized by omission or substitution of grammatical morphemes, a high noun-to-verb ratio and a lack of complex sentence structures. It is generally agreed upon that agrammatic speakers show a highly selective pattern of impairment of functional categories (Arabatzi & Edwards 2000, 2002; Bastiaanse 1995; Bastiaanse & Thompson 2003; Fri...

This study presents results from sentence-completion and grammaticality-judgment tasks with 7 German-speaking agrammatic aphasics and 7 age-matched control subjects examining tense and subject-verb agreement marking. For both experimental tasks, we found that the aphasics achieved high correctness scores for agreement, while tense marking was severely impaired. To account for the observed tense...

The design of functional neuroimaging studies investigating the neural changes that support treatment-based recovery of targeted language functions in acquired aphasia faces a number of challenges. In this paper, we discuss these challenges and focus on experimental tasks and experimental designs that can be used to address the challenges, facilitate the interpretation of results and promote in...

Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA) is a treatment technique in which the person with aphasia repeatedly reads aloud sentences and paragraphs, first in unison with the clinician, and then independently. Based on neuropsychological models of reading, ORLA was developed to improve reading comprehension in individuals with aphasia by providing practice in the phonological and semantic read...

This study compared the post-CVA speech of a patient presenting with the foreign accent syndrome (FAS) to both a premorbid baseline for that patient and to similarly analyzed data from an earlier reported case of FAS. The object of this research was to provide quantitative acoustic data to determine whether: (1) the constellation of phonetic features associated with FAS is the same across patie...

Grodzinsky, Piñango, Zurif, and Drai (1999) argue that a statistical analysis of pooled sentence comprehension data from published studies of Broca's aphasic patients supports the dominance of a differential pattern of performance on active and passive voice structures. They argue that these results counter a previous study in which individual patient data from published studies were analyzed. ...

The authors present a patient in whom electrical cortical stimulation of the posterior temporal cortex induced speech arrest, comprehension deficits, and other language-related impairments. This area was ultimately resected because of persistence of a severe seizure disorder. No postoperative aphasia was observed despite the cortical stimulation results, and the patient is since seizure free. T...

UNLABELLED Aphasia is a language disorder associated with focal brain lesions. Although the topographic definition of the language area has been widely accepted, there is not necessarily any direct correlation between the lesion site and the manifested symptoms. OBJECTIVE To analyze aspects of language in aphasics in relation to lesion topography. METHODS A prospective, descriptive study of...

Great emphasis has been placed on the right hemisphere, due to its possible selective contribution, in the processing of metaphorical statements. Objectives To describe the processing of metaphors in the case of a patient with transcortical motor aphasia, using specific tests for patients with encephalic injuries of the right hemisphere, and to contribute to the discussion on the inter-hemisp...

The clinical study of aphasia began in 1861 with the observations of Paul Broca. Within 40 or 50 years, all of the basic clinical phenomena reviewed here had been described and many of the major flashpoints of clinical and theoretical disagreement had been identified. In the past 20 years, fresh interest has come to clinical aphasia research from two directions: modern neuroimaging and cognitiv...