"Let me tell you the point": How speakers with aphasia assign prominence to information in narratives

Aphasiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6-8, 2010, Pages 697-708

  Olness, Gloria Streit ^a   Matteson, Samuel E ^a   Stewart, Craig T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Discourse; Evaluative devices; Modalising; Narrative

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATIVE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77954695941     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030903438524     Document Type: Article

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