Measuring Lexical Diversity in Adults with Aphasia

Fergadiotis, Gerasimos and Yoo, Hyunjoo and Chen, Franklin and Wright, Heather Harris (2012) Measuring Lexical Diversity in Adults with Aphasia. [Clinical Aphasiology Paper]

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Abstract

The cardinal deficit of people with aphasia (PWA) is anomia (Goodglass & Wingfield, 1997). This deficit is believed to be indicative of disruption of two cognitive processes: (i) accessing a semantic description of the target concept, and/or (ii) retrieval of a fully phonologically specified representation (e.g., Dell, 1986). During discourse, in addition to these core processes that serve word retrieval, production also depends on “…factors external to the lexicon…” (p. 169, Wilshire & McCarthy, 2002). The latter processes might influence the selection of lexical items based on syntactic, structural, and/or pragmatic criteria that can be either automatic or meta-cognitive.

Item Type: Clinical Aphasiology Paper
Depositing User: OSCP Staff 1
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2012
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2016 15:13
Conference: Clinical Aphasiology Conference > Clinical Aphasiology Conference (2012 : 42nd : Lake Tahoe, CA : May 20-25, 2012)
URI: http://aphasiology.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2415

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