Background: AphasiaBank is a collaborative project whose goal is to develop an archival
database of the discourse of individuals with aphasia. Along with databases on first …

AphasiaBank has used a standardized protocol to collect narrative, procedural, personal,
and descriptive discourse from 290 persons with aphasia, as well as 190 control …

Background: Several studies have shown that traditional standardised aphasia tests may not
be sensitive enough to adequately assess linguistic deficits and recovery patterns in …

Discourse has been defined as any language that is “beyond the boundaries of isolated
sentences”(Ulatowska & Olness, 2004, p. 300) and “a set of utterances aimed at conveying a …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the language
characteristics of people with latent aphasia using measures that examined temporal (ie …

Background: In recent years, there has been a shift in aphasia research interest from
analysis of monologues to conversational dialogues. However, where monologic research …

Background: With regard to spontaneously produced speech and the oral production of a
narrative, the content of the message (s) being conveyed by a person with Broca's aphasia …

Background: The Story Retell Procedure (SRP)(Doyle et al.,) is a well‐described method for
eliciting connected language samples in persons with aphasia (PWA). However, the stimuli …

The papers in this special issue share two major features in common. First, in each case, the
research presented takes as its main focus of attention conversational interactions involving …

Background Large-shared databases and automated language analyses allow for the
application of new data analysis techniques that can shed new light on the connected …