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Obler, Loraine K. and Lise Menn. 1989. Agrammatic Aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook. John Benjamins. xxvii, xx, xx, 1985 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

This 3-volume set is unique in that it presents narrative speech from carefully selected clinically comparable agrammatic aphasic patients, speakers of 14 languages, and parallel narratives by normal speakers. For each of the 14 languages there is a case presentation chapter analyzing and discussing the language of agrammatic patients, followed by primary data, which are organized as follows: running text of speech by two patients; interlinear morphemic translations of those texts; running text of speech elicited from two normal control subjects (plus interlinear translations); tables and figures analyzing distributional properties of the patients' speech; results of comprehension tests of the patients; transcriptions of patients' oral reading and writing samples. Neurological information is included with the case presentations, and a short grammatical sketch of each language is added to make the work on all languages accessible even to those who only read English. Language findings are presented for English, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Swedish, French, Italian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hindi, Finnish, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese.