Manifestations of morphological impairments in Greek aphasia: A case study

The present study addresses the issue of morphological manifestations specific to non-fluent aphasia in Greek. The off-line performance of a Greek-speaking aphasic patient is investigated using Paradis'(1987) Bilingual Aphasia Test. His difficulties with inflectional morphology are further prob...

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Published in:Journal of neurolinguistics 2001-04, Vol.14 (2), p.281-296
Main Authors: Tsapkini, Kyrana, Jarema, Gonia, Kehayia, Eva
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aphasia
grammatical categories
Greek
language-specific features
morphological impairment
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Summary:The present study addresses the issue of morphological manifestations specific to non-fluent aphasia in Greek. The off-line performance of a Greek-speaking aphasic patient is investigated using Paradis'(1987) Bilingual Aphasia Test. His difficulties with inflectional morphology are further probed through a series of comprehension, production, repetition and reading tasks. Results obtained show a dissociation in the patient's processing of nouns and verbs related to language-specific morphological features of these grammatical categories. This study underscores the importance of taking the particularities of a given language into account when interpreting aphasic manifestations and sheds new light on the issue of syndrome variability.
ISSN:0911-6044
1873-8052
DOI:10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00018-5