Word finding difficulties in children are typically characterized by search behaviours such as
silence, circumlocution, repetition, and empty words. Yet, how children's word searches are …

Although word searching in children is very common, very little is known about how adults
support children in the turns following the child's search behaviours, an important topic …

This paper uses the methodology and analytical findings of conversation analysis to
investigate the use of a particular subject‐verb construction within the context of turns at talk …

Background Previous research has shown that speakers with aphasia rely on enactment
more often than non‐brain‐damaged language users. Several studies have been conducted …

This study considers the use of repetition in the narratives of African Americans and the way
in which this ethnic use of repetition might be altered or constrained by aphasia. Two groups …

Oral conversational data are deemed to be a relevant empirical source when it comes to
formulating and supporting hypotheses about cognitive processes involved in aphasic …

The purpose of this current research was to determine the effect of familiarity of conversation
partners on contributed conversation turns to dyadic conversation between individuals who …

Employing conversation analysis as a research technique, this study investigates the ways
that unintelligibility is accounted for and overcome within a therapeutic encounter between …

Purpose This study aimed to develop an ICF core set to profile communicative competence
in dyadic communication among adults who use communication devices in Taiwan …

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been defined as a non-acquired language disorder
with language difficulties in the absence of hearing acuity impairment, mental retardation …