LING 1P92 Lecture 3: ling1p92lecture2

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1P92
• Professor: Lynn Dempsey

Document Summary

Aphasia (expressive/non-fluent): disfluent speech, poorly articulated speech, slow, laboured speech, flat, word-retrieval difficulties, telegraphic speech (missing function words & bound morphemes) Difficulty sequencing wods and putting words together, manifests with groping articulators (dysarthria) Usually the result of stroke, tbi, or tba. Receptive aphasia or fluent aphasia or wernicke"s aphasia. Pre-surgery: spinal anesthetic, skull opened and brain exposed. Patients perform verbal tasks as mild electrical currents are applied to small areas of the brain. Some areas where only greek was located. Some areas where only english was located. Some areas where only syntax was located. Some areas where only vocab was located. Helps explain recovery patterns for bilingual patients. Brain mapping helps us to learn the difference in brain functioning and can help us to understand recovery patterns with bilingual patients with aphasia. Subcortical structures: emotional and motor aspects of speech. Limbic systen=m: inhibits and instigates actions that satisfy emotional needs.