Non-fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World

1. List of Figures; 2. List of Excerpts; 3. Abbreviations and Conventions; 4. Acknowledgments; 5. Foreword by Michel Paradis; 6. 1. Introduction; 7. 1.1. The purpose of this book: Audience and goals; 8. 1.2. The types of patients that the book is based on; 9. 1.3. Additional sources of information; 10. 1.4. The plan of the book; 11. 1.5. Linguistics and aphasia; 12. 2. Describing and Comparing Languages; 13. 2.1. Introduction: Why we need linguistic terminology; 14. 2.2. Grammar across the world's languages: The basic types of information conveyed by syntax and morphology; 15. 2.3. Typology and terminology: Common types of morphemes and syntactic structures; 16. 2.4. Pragmatics: Describing sentence types and their uses in conversation; 17. 2.5. Reasoning from linguistic typology: Extrapolating from available data to aphasia in languages not yet studied; 18. 2.6. How to read and use an interlinear morphemic transcription; 19. Recommended readings; 20. Exercises; 21. 3. Basic Properties of Agrammatic Narratives; 22. 3.1. Introduction; 23. 3.2. How do we know what is normal?: The need for control subjects; 24. 3.3. Getting patients to talk: Narrative elicitation; 25. 3.4. General properties of agrammatic narratives; 26. 3.5. Comparing elicitation materials; 27. 3.6. Potential intercultural problems; 28. 3.7. Chapter summary; 29. 4. The Grammar of Connected Agrammatic Speech; 30. 4.1. Introduction; 31. 4.2. Major grammatical phenomena; 32. 4.3. Consequences and contrasts: Counterevidence to some popular descriptions and theories; 33. 5. Speech, Writing, and Oral Reading; 34. 5.1. Introduction: Why should there be either differences or similarities across different types of language output?; 35. 5.2. Disturbances in spontaneous writing; 36. 5.3. Disturbances in reading aloud; 37. 5.4. Differences in degree of disturbance of writing and speech; 38. Exercise; 39. 6. Bilingual and Polyglot Aphasia (by Obler, Loraine K.); 40. 6.1. Introduction; 41. 6.2. Parallel and differential deficits; 42. 6.3. Causes for differential recovery; 43. 6.4. Special bilingual behaviors; 44. 6.5. Brain organization for bilingualism; 45. 6.6. Implications for diagnosis; 46. 7. Inventing Therapy for Aphasia (by Holland, Audrey); 47. 7.1. Introduction: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic issues; 48. 7.2. Treatment for agrammatism; 49. 7.3. Some concluding comments; 50. Appendices; 51. A. Foreign Accents (Non-native Phonetics) and Dysarthria; 52. B. Language Families; 53. C. Clinical Resources; 54. Clinical Glossary; 55. Linguistic Glossary; 56. References