Cross-language lexical connections in the mental lexicon: Evidence from a case of trilingual aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-247

  Goral, Mira ^a,b,c   Levy, Erika S ^d   Obler, Loraine K ^b,c   Cohen, Eyal ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Bilinguals; Inter language activation; Lexical similarities; Mental lexicon; Multilinguals; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

APHASIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33745960898     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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