Spontaneous language production in bilingual Parkinson's disease patients: Evidence of greater phonological, morphological and syntactic impairments in native language

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 84-89

  Zanini, Sergio ^a   Tavano, Alessandro ^a   Fabbro, Franco ^a,b  

^a E Medea Scientific Institute   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language; Morphology and syntax; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FLUENCY DISORDER; GRAMMAR; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHONETICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUALISM; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 77951498466     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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