Loading…

Perspectives on Agrammatism.

Agrammatic aphasia (agrammatism), resulting from brain damage to regions of the brain involved in language processing, affects grammatical aspects of language. Therefore, research examining language breakdown (and recovery) patterns in agrammatism is of great interest and importance to linguists, ne...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bastiaanse, Roelien
Other Authors: Thompson, Cynthia K. K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Brain damage, behaviour, and cognition.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Perspectives on Agrammatism; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Series preface; 1. Introduction to agrammatism; 2. Linguistic accounts of agrammatic aphasia; 3. Resource reduction accounts of syntactically based comprehension disorders; 4. Neurological accounts of agrammatism; 5. Lexical impairment in agrammatism; 6. Morphological aspects of agrammatic aphasia; 7. Lexical, infl ectional, and clitic morphology: Evidence from an agrammatic aphasic individual; 8. Agrammatism at the sentence level: the role of morphology and prosody.
  • 9. Assessment of agrammatic language10. Approaches to treatment of agrammatism; References; Author index; Subject index.