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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815273803321

Titolo

Perspectives on agrammatism / / edited by Roelien Bastiaanse and Cynthia K. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hove, East Sussex ; ; New York, NY, : Psychology Press, 2012

ISBN

1-136-32081-4

1-280-66262-X

9786613639554

0-203-12037-X

1-136-32082-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Brain, behaviour and cognition series

Altri autori (Persone)

BastiaanseRoelien

ThompsonCynthia K

Disciplina

616.85/52

Soggetti

Agrammatism

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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, neurolinguists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, psycholinguists and speech and



language pathologists from all over the world. Research in agrammatism, studied across languages and from different perspectives, provides information about the grammatical structures that are affected by brain damage,