The FIU Linguistics Program, the Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders, and the Department of English Present:

The 2008 Barbara Gordon Memorial Lecture Series

“Doing Cross-Linguistic Studies
on Aphasia”

By
Lise Menn
University of Colorado
 

     "In people who speak more than one language, both languages are usually affected by aphasia, but sometimes one is better preserved than the other.  Differences in preservation are usually discussed in terms of differences in how much the patient used each of the languages, when they were learned, and/or differing degrees of brain lateralization for early vs. late-learned languages.      

     Differences between the grammars, sounds, phonologies, and writing systems of the two languages, however, can make important differences in the symptoms that a patient shows in one language as compared to the other.  I will show how these differences between languages can affect the clinical impression, and open the floor to discussion of the impact that these differences in symptoms might have on remediation decisions."

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