Understanding utterances in conversations requires a listener to weight the disparate pieces
of information present in a discourse. In this study, we examined how right hemisphere brain …

The ability to interpret conversational utterances was assessed in a group of 12 male
patients with unilateral right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) and 12 non-brain-damaged …

Successful communication depends on social as well as linguistic factors. In conversation,
for example, a speaker must often refer to another person. Choosing an appropriate term of …

The appropriateness of speech-language services for right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD)
adults has been established (Davis et al., 1981), and the deficits of their verbal discourse …

To secure information on which aspects of linguistic functioning might be mediated by the
nondominant hemisphere, a test battery assessing sensitivity to narrational and humorous …

Background: As variation in normal discourse is well acknowledged in the sociolinguistic
literature (Labov, 1972), it is logical that it must be inherent in the discourse of …

Right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and left hemisphere-damaged (LHD) aphasic patients
were tested on a nonverbal cartoon completion task that included a humorous (Joke) and a …

After listening to multiple-episode stories that promoted coherence inferences, right
hemisphere-damaged patients answered Inference questions about the stories less …

Purpose Discourse characteristics of adults with right hemisphere brain damage are similar
to those reported for healthy older adults, prompting the question of whether changes are …

This study analysed narrative and procedural discourse samples produced by a right-
hemisphere brain-damaged (RHBD) and a non-brain-damaged subject according to a …