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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bastiaanse, Roelien.

Thompson, Cynthia K.

Series:

Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

Brain, behaviour and cognition series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agrammatism.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-32081-4

1-280-66262-X

9786613639554

0-203-12037-X

1-136-32082-2

9780203120378

OCLC:

798533430