Louise Cummings provides a comprehensive introduction to speech and language therapy
which will give SLT students an excellent starting point for a wide range of communication …

Background Although discourse‐level assessments contribute to predicting real‐world
performance in persons with aphasia (PWA), the use of discourse measures is uncommon in …

Background: Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences is often impaired in
Broca's aphasia. When the arguments in such sentences are in derived order, they are more …

Omission and substitution of articles have often been mentioned as characteristics of
agrammatic speech. In these descriptions, articles are considered to be so-called function …

Aphasic discourse has been investigated through two major approaches: a micro-linguistic
approach and a macro one, but the separate analysis of the micro and macro aspects of …

Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism provides an in-depth review of the
previous five decades of research on agrammatism focusing specifically on work which has …

Determiner production is a testing ground for theories of Broca's aphasia and agrammatic
speech. On one type of theory, determiner production is impaired in so far as determiners …

Individuals with agrammatic aphasia are known to have difficulties interpreting Object
Relative Clauses (ORCs), but not Subject Relative Clauses (SRCs). This asymmetry is …

The case of an aphasic patient whose spontaneous speech contains very few lexical verbs
is reported. Instead of sentences with lexical verbs, the patient produces many (grammatical) …

The present study tests theories about the representation of compound nouns and
grammatical gender in the mental lexicon. Comprehension and production of determiner …