Verb retrieval in fluent aphasia: A clinical study
| Autor: | Kate Tucker, Susan Edwards |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
education.field_of_study Mental lexicon media_common.quotation_subject Population Verb LPN and LVN Language and Linguistics Linguistics Clinical study Neurology Otorhinolaryngology Aphasia Reading (process) Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Semantic information Psychology education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Aphasiology. 20:644-675 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5041 0268-7038 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02687030600631827 |
| Popis: | Background: Problems with lexical retrieval are common across all types of aphasia but certain word classes are thought to be more vulnerable in some aphasia types. Traditionally, verb retrieval problems have been considered characteristic of non‐fluent aphasias but there is growing evidence that verb retrieval problems are also found in fluent aphasia. As verbs are retrieved from the mental lexicon with syntactic as well as phonological and semantic information, it is speculated that an improvement in verb retrieval should enhance communicative abilities in this population as in others. We report on an investigation into the effectiveness of verb treatment for three individuals with fluent aphasia. We are grateful to the three participants and their practice partners, the speech and language therapists who referred participants, and Lizet Van Ewijk who helped with the analyses of the data. The project was funded by a University of Reading Health Research Fellowship. Methods & Procedures: Multiple pre‐tre... |
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