Paradoxical switching to a barely-mastered second language by an aphasic patient

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 209-213

  Leemann, B ^a   Laganaro, M ^a   Schwitter, V ^a   Schnider, A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Multilingual; Paradoxical switching

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONEME; REHABILITATION CARE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH THERAPY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSLATING;

EID: 34548580542     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701502667     Document Type: Article

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