1st Edition

The Pragmatic Basis of Aphasia A Neurolinguistic Study of Morphosyntax Among Bilinguals

Edited By Marc L. Schnitzer Copyright 1989
    224 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    224 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    This language study's primary purpose is to use aphasic performance to understand language, rather than to use linguistic analysis to understand aphasia. Examining the detailed nature of linguistic performance of bilingual aphasics in a variety of "natural" and metalinguistic tasks, the book reports the results of a study of morphology and syntax among Spanish-English bilingual and monolingual hispanophones in Puerto Rico.

    Contents: Foreword. Introduction. Instrument. Procedures. Subjects. Results. Discussion. Relevance to Related Fields. Afterword.

    Biography

    Schnitzer, Marc L.

    "In this thoughtful book, Scnitzer presents a point of view that deserves serious consideration, both with respect to its central thesis and with respect to his comments on the nature of language."
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