First in, last out?: The evolution of aphasic lexical speech automatisms to agrammatism and the evolution of human communication

Interaction Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-334

  Code, Chris ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasic speech automatisms; Evolution of language and speech; Expletives; Recurrent utterances

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646779090     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.6.2.08cod     Document Type: Article

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