Aphasia in Turkish: Speech production in Broca's and Wernicke's patients

Turkish speech production was studied in 7 Broca's and 10 Wernicke's aphasics. Turkish is an agglutinative language, with few free-standing closed-class morphemes. The speech of Broca's patients was not telegraphic; although nonfluent, noun and verb suffixes were used appropriately. T...

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Published in:Brain and language 1991-08, Vol.41 (2), p.149-164
Main Author: Slobin, Dan I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aphasia, Broca - diagnosis
Aphasia, Broca - physiopathology
Aphasia, Wernicke - diagnosis
Aphasia, Wernicke - physiopathology
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Dominance, Cerebral - physiology
Female
Humans
Language
Male
Neuropsychological Tests
Psycholinguistics
Speech Production Measurement
Turkey
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Summary:Turkish speech production was studied in 7 Broca's and 10 Wernicke's aphasics. Turkish is an agglutinative language, with few free-standing closed-class morphemes. The speech of Broca's patients was not telegraphic; although nonfluent, noun and verb suffixes were used appropriately. The speech of Wernicke's aphasics was fluent, using a wide range of often inappropriate forms. Both groups used appropriate nominal morphology. Broca's patients used a limited set of verb forms in contextually appropriate fashion. Wernicke's patients used a wide range of verb forms, all morphosyntactically correct, but often semantically anomalous. Both groups retained canonical subject-object-verb word order and controlled various types of pragmatically appropriate word order variation. It is proposed that aphasic speech patterns reflect retrieval problems rather than impairment of a portion of the language system.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1016/0093-934X(91)90150-Y