The Production of Nominal Compounds in Aphasia

This study reports the difficulties of aphasic patients in producing nominal compounds in German. In a picture naming task with semantically relatively transparent targets it was found that the word frequency of the components determined the accuracy of the patients' performance. A second pictu...

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Published in:Brain and language 2000-08, Vol.74 (1), p.84-102
Main Author: Blanken, Gerhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aphasia - diagnosis
Biological and medical sciences
Female
Humans
Language and communication disorders
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Semantics
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:This study reports the difficulties of aphasic patients in producing nominal compounds in German. In a picture naming task with semantically relatively transparent targets it was found that the word frequency of the components determined the accuracy of the patients' performance. A second picture naming task using relatively opaque targets, and a further naming task in which patients were confronted with aurally presented object paraphrases using very opaque targets, are reported. The error patterns of all three tasks give evidence for morpheme-based mis-productions (e.g., componential substitutions), however, in declining proportions with decreasing semantic transparency. Access to final (or basic) components was clearly superior to initial (or determinative) components suggesting position-specific access routines.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.2000.2338