The organisation of nouns and verbs in bilingual speakers: A case of bilingual grammatical category-specific deficit

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-305

  Hernández, Mireia ^a   Costa, Albert ^a   Sebastián Gallés, Núria ^a   Juncadella, Montserrat ^b   Reñé, Ramón ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Grammatical category specific deficit; Naming; Nouns verbs

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; DYSLEXIA; ERROR; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34249663223     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Abutalebi, J., & Green, D.W. (in press). Journal of Neurolinguistics.
2. Abutalebi, J., Cappa, S.F., & Perani, D. (2001). The bilingual brain as revealed by functional neuroimaging. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2 (Special issue: The cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism), 179-190.
3. Abutalebi J., Cappa S.F., and Perani D. What can functional neuroimaging tell us about the bilingual brain?. In: Kroll J.F., and de Groot A.M.B. (Eds). Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (2005), Oxford Universisty Press, New York 497-515
4. Albert M.L., and Obler L.K. The bilingual brain: Neuropsychological and neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism (1978), Academic Press, New York
5. Badecker W., Miozzo M., and Zanuttini R. The two-stage model of lexical retrieval: Evidence from a case of anomia with selective preservation of grammatical gender. Cognition 57 2 (1995) 193-216
6. Berndt R., Mitchum C., Haendiges A., and Sandson J. Verb retrieval in aphasia. 1. Characterising single word impairments. Brain and Language 56 (1997) 68-106
7. Breedin S., Saffran E., and Schwartz M. Semantic factors in verb retrieval: An effect of complexity. Brain and Language 63 (1998) 1-31
8. Briellmann R.S., Saling M.M., Connell A.B., Waites A.B., Abbott D.F., and Jackson G.D. A high-field functional MRI study of quadry-lingual subjects. Brain and Language 89 (2004) 531-542
9. Bushell C., and Martin A. Automatic semantic priming of nouns and verbs in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia 35 (2002) 1059-1067
10. Cappa S.F., Bienetti G., Pezzini A., Padovani A., Rozzini L., and Trabucchi M. Object and action naming in Alzheimer's disease and fronto-temporal dementia. Neurology 50 (1998) 351-355
11. Caramazza A. How many levels of processing are there in the lexical access?. Cognitive Neuropsychology 14 (1997) 177-208
12. Caramazza A., and Hillis A. Lexical organization of nouns and verbs in the brain. Nature 349 (1991) 788-790
13. Chee M.W.L., Hon N., Lee H.L., and Soon C.S. Relative language proficiency modulates BOLD signal change when bilinguals perform semantic judgements. NeuroImage 13 (2001) 1155-1163
14. Chee M.W.L., Tan E.W.L., and Theil T. Mandarin and English single word processing studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Neuroscience 19 (1999) 3050-3056
15. Chialant D., Costa, A., & Caramazza A. (2002). Disorders of naming. In A. Hillis (Ed.), Handbook of adult language disorders: Integrating cognitive neuropsychology, neurology, and rehabilitation (pp. 123-142). Psychology Press.
16. Costa A., Caramazza A., and Sebastián-Gallés N. The cognate facilitation effect: Implications for models of lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26 (2000) 1283-1296
17. Costa A., Santesteban M., and Caño A. On the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production. Brain and Language 94 (2005) 94-103
18. Damasio A.R., and Tranel D. Nouns and verbs are retrieved with differently distributed neural systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 90 11 (1993) 4957-4960
19. De Bleser, R., Dupont, P., Postler, J., Bormans, G., Mortelmans, L., & Debrock, M. (2003). The organisation of the bilingual lexicon: A PET study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 16(4-5), Special issue: Functional neuroimaging contributions to neurolinguistics, 439-456.
20. De Diego Balaguer R., Costa A., Sebastián-Gallés N., Juncadella M., and Caramazza A. Regular and irregular morphology and its relation with agrammatism: Evidence from Spanish and Catalan. Brain and Language 91 (2004) 212-222
21. Dehaene S., Dupoux E., Mehler J., Cohen L., Paulesu E., and Perani D. Anatomical veriability in the cortical representation of first and second languages. Neuroreport 8 (1997) 3809-3815
22. De Renzi E., and di Pellegrino G. Sparing of verbs and preserved but ineffectual reading in patient with impaired word production. Cortex 31 (1995) 619-636
23. Gollan T.H., and Acenas L.R. GAT is a TOT? Cognate and translation effects on tip-of-the-tongue states in Spanish-English and Tagalog-English bilinguals. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 30 1 (2004) 246-269
24. Gomez-Tortosa E., Martin E., Gaviria M., Charbel F., and Ausman J. Selective deficit of one language in a bilingual patient following surgery in the left perisylvian area. Brain and Language 48 (1995) 320-325
25. Goodglass H., and Kaplan E. Boston diagnostic aphasia examination (1983), Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, PA
26. Green D.W. The neurocognition of recovery patterns in bilingual aphasics. In: Kroll J.F., and de Groot A.M.B. (Eds). Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (2005), Oxford University Press, New York 516-530
27. Green D.W., and Price C.J. Functional imaging in the study of recovery patterns in bilingual aphasia. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 4 (2001) 191-201
28. Hillis A., Oh S., and Ken L. Deterioration of naming nouns versus verbs in primary progressive aphasia. Annals of Neurology 55 (2004) 268-275
29. Hillis A., Tuffiash E., and Caramazza A. Modality-specific deterioration in naming verbs in nonfluent primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14 7 (2002) 1099-1108
30. Indefrey P. A Meta-analysis of hemodynamic studies on first and second language processing: Which suggested differences can we trust and what do they mean?. Language Learning 56 (2006) 279-304
31. Kim K.H., Relkin N.R., Lee K.M., and Hirsch J. Distinct cortical areas associated with native and second languages. Nature 388 (1997) 171-174
32. Klein D., Milner B., Zatorre R., Evans A., and Meyer E. Functional anatomy of bilingual language processing-A neuroimaging study. Brain and Language 47 (1994) 464-466
33. Klein D., Milner B., Zatorre R.J., Zhao V., and Nikelski J. Cerebral organization in bilinguals-A PET study of Chinese-English verb generation. Neuroreport 10 (1999) 2841-2846
34. Kohnert K. Cognitive and cognate-based treatments for bilingual aphasia: A case study. Brain and Language 91 (2004) 294-302
35. Kroll, J. F., Dijkstra, A., Janssen, N., & Schriefers, H. (2000). Selecting the language in which to speak: Experiments on lexical access in bilingual production. In Paper presented at the 41st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
36. Lucas T.H., McKhann G.M., and Ojemann G.A. Functional separation of languages in the bilingual brain: A comparison of electrical stimulation language mapping in 25 bilingual patients and 117 monolingual control patients. Journal of Neurosurgery 101 (2004) 449-457
37. Marshall J., Chiat S., Robson J., and Pring T. Calling a salad a federation: An investigation of semantic jargon. Part 2-Verbs. Journal of Neurolinguistics 9 (1996) 251-260
38. Marshall J., Pring T., Chiat S., and Robson J. Calling a salad a federation: An investigation of semantic jargon. Part 1-Nouns. Journal of Neurolinguistics 9 (1996) 237-250
39. McCarthy R., and Warrington E. Category specificity in an agrammatic patient: The relative impairment of verb retrieval and comprehension. Neuropsychologia 23 (1985) 709-727
40. Miceli G., Silveri M., Villa G., and Caramazza A. On the basis for the agrammatic's difficulty in producing main verbs. Cortex 20 (1984) 207-220
41. Moretti R., Bava A., Torre O., Antonello R.M., Zorzon M., Zivandinov R., et al. Bilingual aphasia and subcortical-cortical lesions. Perceptual and Motor Skills 92 (2001) 803-814
42. Ojemann G.A., and Whitaker A.A. The bilingual brain. Archives of Neurology 35 (1978) 409-412
43. Paradis M. Neurolinguistic aspects of implicit and explicit memory: Implications for bilingualism ans SLA. In: Ellis N. (Ed). Implicit learning of languages (1994), Academic Press, London 393-419
44. Paradis M., and Goldblum M.C. Selected crossed aphasia in a trilingual patient followed by reciprocal antagonism. Brain and Language 36 (1989) 62-75
45. Parris B., and Weekes B. Action naming in dementia. Neurocase 7 6 (2001) 459-471
46. Perani D., Abutalebi J., Paulesu E., Scifo P., Cappa S.F., and Fazio F. The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high proficient bilinguals: A fMRI study during verbal fluency. Human Brain Mapping 19 (2003) 170-182
47. Perani D., and Abutalebi J. The neural basis of first and second language processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15 2 (2005) 202-206
48. Perani D., Paulesu E., Sebastián-Gallés N., Dupoux E., Dehaene S., Bettinardi V., et al. The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language. Brain 121 10 (1998) 1841-1852
49. Pillai J.J., Araque J.M., Allison J.D., Sethuraman S., Loring D.W., Thiruvaiyaru D., et al. Functional MRI study of semantic and phonological language processing in bilingual subjects: Preliminary findings. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 565-576
50. Pouratian N., Bookheimer S.Y., O'Farrell A.M., Sicotte N.L., Cannestra A.F., Becker D., et al. Optical imaging of bilingual cortical representations-case report. Journal of Neurosurgery 93 (2000) 676-681
51. Pu Y., Liu H.L., Spinks J.A., Mahankali S., Xiong J., Feng C.M., et al. Cerebral hemodynamic response in Chinese (first) and English (second) language processing revealed by event-related functional MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 19 (2001) 643-647
52. Rapp B., and Caramazza A. The modality-specific organization of grammatical categories: Evidence from impaired spoken and written sentence production. Brain and Language 56 (1997) 248-286
53. Rapp B., and Caramazza A. A case of selective difficulty in writing verbs. Neurocase 4 (1998) 127-140
54. Rapp B., and Caramazza A. Selective difficulties with spoken nouns and written verbs: A single case study. Journal of Neurolinguistics 15 (2002) 373-402
55. Roberts P., and Deslauriers L. Picture naming of cognate and non-cognate nouns in bilingual aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders 32 (1999) 1-23
56. Robinson K.M., Grossman M., White-Devine T., and D'Esposito M. Category-specific difficulty naming with verbs in Alzheimer's disease. Neurology 47 (1996) 178-182
57. Robinson G., Rossor M., and Cipolotti L. Selective sparing of verb naming in a case of severe Alzheimer's disease. Cortex 35 (1999) 443-450
58. Rüeschemeyer S.A., Fiebach C.J., Kempe V., and Friederici A.D. Processing lexical semantic and syntactic information in first and second language: fMRI evidence from German and Russian. Human Brain Mapping 25 (2005) 266-286
59. Shapiro K., and Caramazza A. Looming a loom: Evidence for independent access to grammatical and phonological properties in verb retrieval. Journal of Neurolinguistics 16 (2003) 85-111
60. Shapiro K., and Caramazza A. The representation of gramatical categories in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (2003) 201-206
61. Silveri M., and di Betta A. Noun-verb dissociations in brain-damaged patients: Further evidence. Neurocase 3 (1997) 477-488
62. Sörös P., Cornelissen K., Laine M., and Salmelin R. Naming actions and objects: Cortical dynamics in healthy adults and in an anomic patient with a dissociation in action/object naming. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 1787-1801
63. Ullman M. The neural basis of lexicon and grammar in first and second language: The declarative/procedural model. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 4 (2001) 105-122
64. Vigliocco G., Vinson D.P., and Martin R.C. Is 'count' and 'mass' information available when the noun is not? An investigation of tip of the tongue states and anomia. Journal of Memory and Language 40 4 (1999) 534-558
65. Wartenburger I., Heekeren H.R., Abutalebi J., Cappa S.F., Villringer A., and Perani D. Early setting of grammatical processing in the bilingual brain. Neuron 37 (2003) 159-170
66. Weber-Fox Ch., and Neville H.J. Sensitive periods differentiate processing of open- and closed-class words: An ERP study of bilinguals. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44 6 (2001) 1338-1353
67. White-Devine T., Robinson K.M., Onishi K., Seidl A., Biassou N., D'Esposito M., et al. Verb conforntation naming and word-picture matching in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 10 (1996) 495-503
68. Yetkin O., Yetkin Z., Haughton V., and Cox R.W. Use of functional MR to map language in multilingual volunteers. American Journal of Neuroradiology 17 (1996) 473-477
69. Zingeser L., and Berndt R. Grammatical class and context effects in a case of pure anomia: Implications for models of language production. Cognitive Neuropsychology 5 (1988) 473-516
70. Zingeser L., and Berndt R. Retrieval of nouns and verbs in agrammatism and aphasia. Brain and Language 39 (1990) 14-32