Pragmatics and adult language disorders: Past achievements and future directions

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 96-110

  Cummings, Louise ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Left and right hemisphere damage; Pragmatics; Schizophrenia; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONVERSATION; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MENINGITIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRAGMATIC DISORDER; PRAGMATICS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FORECASTING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FORECASTING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY;

EID: 34250666696     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-970568     Document Type: Review

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