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Publication details [#30796]

Fabbro, Franco, Dario Filiputti, Alessandro Tavano and Lorenza Vorano. 2002. Nonparellel recovery of languages in a quadrilingual aphasic patient. International Journal of Bilingualism 6 (4) : 395–410.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Kingston Press
ISBN
0023-8309

Annotation

This case study proposes to examine whether the Italian second language treatment of a fluent multilingual aphasic, leads to a parallel improvement of all the mastered languages, in casu Slovenian, Italian, Friulian and English and whether the hypothesized benefits of rehabilitation last four years after the end of treatment. The results reveal a non-parallel recovery pattern, with a significant improvement of second, third an fourth language, but a decrease of Slovenian mastery. Rehabilitation effects appear to be maintained four years after the end of treatment.