Aphasia is a disorder of language produced by injury to the brain structures most essential
for language functioning. Thus, by definition, it would seem to be an area in which linguistic …

Acquired aphasia is the loss of some aspect of language processing consequent to brain
damage. The specific form of aphasia observed in a patient is determined by the locus of …

A brief survey of the field of aphasia is presented. Many of the facts described in the
neurological classics remain valid, but the interpretation of these facts must be altered. The …

The present communication is a product of the collaboration between the Speech and
Language Clinic of The University of Chicago and the Psychometric Laboratory of the …

STATING THE PROBLEM It has become fashionable among certain students of aphasia and
of psycholinguistics to adopt the seemingly sophisticated attitude that the aphasic language …

This paper discusses recent studies of aphasia from the perspective of theories of normal
language structure and processing. Patterns of language breakdown are considered to …

Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their
contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter …

The present book is the result of observations collected during the Second World War and
postwar years when the disorders and subsequent recovery of functions disturbed by brain …

The nature of aphasic impairment is reviewed from four viewpoints:(1) the construction of
behavioural classifications that predict the locus of brain damage;(2) the initial assessment …

Linguistics challenges the student of aphasia to determine whether various levels of
language are disturbed in brain-injured persons differentially according to their inherent" …