Aspects of Multilingual Aphasia / / ed. by Martin R. Gitterman, Mira Goral, Loraine K. Obler.

This volume provides a broad overview of current work in aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. With contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field, the material included, both experimental work and theoretical overviews, should prove useful to both researchers and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Communication Disorders Across Languages
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Broad Considerations
  • 1. The Study of Bilingual Aphasia: The Questions Addressed
  • 2. Bilingual Aphasia: Neural Plasticity and Considerations for Recovery
  • Part 2: Assessment and Treatment
  • 3. What Do We Know About Assessing Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia?
  • 4. Morphological Assessment in Bilingual Aphasia: Compounding and the Language Nexus
  • 5. The Clinical Management of Anomia in Bilingual Speakers of Spanish and English
  • 6. Generalization in Bilingual Aphasia Treatment
  • 7. Cross-Language Treatment Effects in Multilingual Aphasia
  • 8. Language Deficits, Recovery Patterns and Effective Intervention in a Multilingual 16 Years Post-TBI
  • Part 3: Bilingual Language Phenomena
  • 9. Bilingual Aphasia and Code-Switching: Representation and Control
  • 10. Grammatical Category Deficits in Bilingual Aphasia
  • 11. Language Choice in Bilingual Aphasia: Memory and Emotions
  • 12. Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Bilinguals Across Alphabetical and Non-Alphabetical Scripts
  • Part 4: Language Pairs
  • 13. Morphosyntactic Features in the Spoken Language of Spanish-English Bilinguals with Aphasia
  • 14. Non-Word Jargon Produced by a French-English Bilingual
  • 15. Number-Processing Deficit in a Bilingual (Chinese-English) Speaker
  • 16. A Case Study of a Bidialectal (African-American Vernacular English/Standard American English) Speaker with Agrammatism
  • Part 5: Cultural Context
  • 17. Aphasia, Language and Culture: Arabs in the US
  • 18. Towards Cultural Aphasiology: Contextual Models of Service Delivery in Aphasia
  • Index