Content word production during discourse in aphasia: Deficits in word quantity, not lexical–semantic complexity

RSW Alyahya, AD Halai, P Conroy… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Although limited and reduced connected speech production is one, if not the most,
prominent feature of aphasia, few studies have examined the properties of content words …

The use of spontaneous gesture by aphasic patients

A Le May, R David, AP Thomas - Aphasiology, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
In order to determine the extent to which aphasic patients are able to use hand gestures in
their spontaneous communication, informally structured 20-minute interviews were …

Conceptual and lexical aspects of gesture: Evidence from aphasia

U Hadar, S Yadlin-Gedassy - Journal of neurolinguistics, 1994 - Elsevier
The patterns of speech-related (“coverbal”) gestures were investigated in two right-handed
aphasic patients, one (PA) with a primary deficit in pre-linguistic, conceptual processing and …