Morphological deficits related to noun in Kurdish- Persian bilingual Broca’s aphasic patients

Exploring Aphasia in Kalhori

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, h...

Assessment and treatment of linguistic deficits in aphasic patients Assessment and Treatment of Linguistic Deficits in Aphasic Patients

Promotiecommissie Promotor: Contents 1 General introduction 1 2 Linguistic deficits in the acute phase of stroke 13 3 The impact of linguistic deficits on verbal communication 27 4 Effects of semantic treatment on verbal communication and linguistic processing in aphasia after stroke: a randomised controlled trial 41 5 Cues on request: the efficacy of Multicue, a computer program for wordfindin...

Semantics of Noun-determination in Persian

This paper deals with several issues in the semantics of Persian noun-determination, which has long been of interest to linguists of various theoretical backgrounds, but has only recently started receiving attention from formally-oriented semanticists. The aim of this paper is to introduce and elaborate on several of the more promising newer approaches to the problem of Persian noundeterminatio...

Semantic Feature Analysis Treatment for Anomia of two nonfluent Persian-speaking aphasic patients

Methods: A single-subject study with ABA design was applied to two Persian-speaking patients with chronic nonfluent aphasia. Assessment, baseline, intervention and maintenance phases were carried out respectively during 6 weeks. A picture naming task which was made up of pictures with high nameagreement comprising 12 target, 18 non-treated control and 5 easy words was used for probes and interv...

Morphological approach to character recognition in machine-printed Persian words

Grammatical category-specific deficits in bilingual aphasia.

We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). JPG's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with worse performance in naming verbs than nouns. This dissociation was present in oral and written naming and in his two languages, and it seems to stem from damage to, at least,...