Language-Mixing, Discourse Length and Discourse Quality in Bilingual Aphasia

Some researchers assert that “normal” mixing of words from one language into another occurs more often in multilingual individuals with aphasia (PWA) than in matched healthy controls (HC) (e.g., Chengappa et al., 2004). In one case-study, language-mixing was seen to help PWA increase their communica...

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Main Authors: Avanthi Paplikar, Mira Goral, Loraine Obler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2014.64.00053/full