The aim of this study is twofold. First, to investigate the use of functional categories by two Greek agrammatic aphasics. Second, to discuss the implications of our findings for the characterization of the deficit in agrammatism. The functional categories under investigation were the following: definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, aspect, tense, subject-verb agreement, wh-prono...

Agrammatism is characterized by morphosyntactic deficits in production of sentences. Studies dealing with the treatment of these deficits are scarce and their results controversial. The present study describes the rehabilitation of a case diagnosed as chronic Broca's aphasia, with agrammatism, using a method directed to sentence structural deficits. The method aims to expand the grammatical rep...

Most studies on spontaneous speech of individuals with agrammatism have focused almost exclusively on monolingual individuals. There is hardly any previous research on bilinguals, especially of structurally different languages; and none on characterization of agrammatism in Swahili. The current study identifies the features of Swahili agrammatic narrative and spontaneous speech, and compares th...

The pervasive use of clinical categories of aphasia in neurolinguistic and cognitive neuropsychological research reflects the assumption that these patient groupings represent disruptions of the normal language-processing system along theoretically significant lines. This premise is examined here with particular reference to the status of ‘agrammatism’. It is argued that there are compelling re...

In an analysis of the assumptions behind the use of patient groupings in neurolinguistic and cognitive neuropsychological research (Badecker & Caramazza, 1985), we have argued that clinical categories in general, and agrammatism in particular, allow no valid means for reasoning from patterns of impaired performance to an understanding of the processing mechanisms underlying normal linguistic pe...

Abst rac t -Few systematic descriptions of aphasia characteristics are available about the Spanish language. Three different language aspects are examined in this paper: phonology, aphasic substitutions (paraphasias), and morphosyntax. It has been observed that phonological errors in Spanish speaking aphasics more frequently involve vowels than consonants. It is proposed that this is related to...