Treatment of semantic verb classes in aphasia: Acquisition and generalization effects

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 399-418

  Faroqi Shah, Yasmeen ^a   Graham, Lauren E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

aphasia; generalization; semantic features; treatment; verb

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GESTURE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY;

APHASIA; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79953819966     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2010.545964     Document Type: Article

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