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Title:Narrative discourse in anomic aphasia
Authors:ID Andreetta, Sara (Author)
ID Cantagallo, Anna (Author)
ID Marini, Andrea (Author)
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Language:English
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Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:UNG - University of Nova Gorica
Abstract:Anomic aphasia is a disturbance affecting lexical retrieval. Nonetheless, persons with this disorder may also experience difficulties in the construction of coherent narratives. Whether this symptom is a sign of a macrolinguistic difficulty per se or reflects the lexical disorder is still an open debate. In order to analyze the effect of the lexical impairment on macrolinguistic processing, we compared the narrative skills of a group of ten participants with chronic anomic aphasia with those of ten healthy control individuals matched for age and educational level. The anomic participants produced narratives with lowered speech rate, reduced mean length of utterance, fewer grammatically well-formed sentences, more semantic paraphasias. The macrolinguistic analysis showed that they also produced more errors of cohesion and global coherence and fewer lexical information units. Interestingly, their levels of thematic selection were normal. A bivariate correlational analysis showed a strong correlation between the production of errors of cohesion and production of complete sentences, and between production of errors of global coherence and lexical information units. These correlations showed that aspects related to lexical retrieval may affect macrolinguistic processing during the construction of a narrative. Indeed, it is suggested that lexical deficits lead to two main consequences: First, patients with anomia frequently interrupt the utterances they are producing and this reduces the levels of sentence completeness and the overall degree of cohesion across the utterances; Second, they use strategies to cope with the lexical impairment and produce a quantity of lexical fillers and repetitions that, clustered in utterances, reduce the levels of global coherence.
Keywords:aphasia, neurolinguistics, speech disorders, discourse analysis
Year of publishing:2012
Number of pages:str. 1787-1793
Numbering:Vol. 50, no. 8
PID:20.500.12556/RUNG-2081 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:3555323 New window
ISSN on article:0028-3932
DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.003 New window
NUK URN:URN:SI:UNG:REP:9PP7EE1S
Publication date in RUNG:07.03.2016
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Title:Neuropsychologia
Shortened title:Neuropsychologia
Publisher:Pergamon Press
ISSN:0028-3932
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Licensing start date:27.01.2016

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Keywords:afazija, govorne motnje, nevropsihologija, analiza diskurza


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