Semantic knowledge use in discourse produced by individuals with anomic aphasia
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Semantic Knowledge Use in Discourse Produced by Individuals with Anomic Aphasia.
BACKGROUND Researchers have demonstrated that people with aphasia (PWA) have preserved semantic knowledge (Dell et al., 1997; Jefferies & Lambon Ralph, 2006). However, Antonucci (2014) demonstrated that some PWA have impaired access to certain types of knowledge more than others. Yet, all these studies used single concepts. It has not been demonstrated whether PWA have difficulty accessing cert...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aphasiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0268-7038,1464-5041
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2015.1081140