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Publication details [#31054]

Obler, Loraine K., Lise Menn, M. O'Connor and Audrey Holland. 1995. Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World. (Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics 5). John Benjamins. 212 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume consitutes an introduction to the language of patients with non-fluent aphasia. Recent research in languages other than English has challenged our old descriptions of aphasia syndromes: while their patterns can be recognized across languages, the structure of each language has a profound effect on the symptoms of aphasic speech. However, the basic linguistic concepts needed to understand these effects in languages other than English have rarely been part of the training of the clinician. This volume introduces these concepts plainly and concretely, in the context of dozens of examples from the narratives and conversations of patients speaking most of the major languages of Europe, North America and Asia. Linguistic and clinical terms are carefully defined and kept as theory neutral as possible.