The Acquisition, Retention, and Loss of Vocabulary in Aphasia, Dementia, and Other Neuropsychological Conditions

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 635-660

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquiring, deploying vocabulary; Age of acquisition, lexical decision; Age of acquisition measures; Frustrating "senior moments"; Loss of vocabulary, in aphasia, dementia; Neuropsychology of language, language loss; Normal ageing; Problems in remembering names; Recovery, progressive loss; Vocabulary loss I, normal ageing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886336626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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