There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

The cognitive basis of utterance interpretation is an area that continues to provoke intense
theoretical debate among pragmatists. That utterance interpretation involves some type of …

Background: Working memory (WM) limitations have been suggested as a significant source
of the linguistic processing deficits observed in individuals with aphasia (IWA). Digits forward …

Objective: To examine elaborative and automatic linguistic inferences in conversations
between adults with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their frequent …

Objective: The current research aimed at classifying communication profiles among right-
brain-damaged adults with an intercultural perspective, and so begins to fill in a long …

Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify some potential key cognitive and
communicative processes underlying narrative discourse ability following traumatic brain …

Purpose: The goal of the current research study was to advance our knowledge of cognitive-
communicative disorders following traumatic brain injury (TBI) by identifying the cognitive …

Abstract Traditionally, Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT) has been used as means of
increasing verbal output (expressive language) in individuals with Broca's aphasia; …