TY - JOUR
T1 - Revisiting 'The influence of literacy in paraphasias of aphasic speakers'
AU - Colaço, Dora
AU - Mineiro, Ana
AU - Leal, Gabriela
AU - Castro-Caldas, Alexandre
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - Literature suggests that illiterate subjects are unaware of the phonological structure of language. This fact may influence the characteristics of aphasic speech, namely the structure of paraphasias. A battery of tests was developed for this study to be used with aphasic subjects (literate and illiterate), in order to explore this topic in more detail. This article aims to present the experimental design and the results of this test battery composed of two sub-tests: (i) a naming test with words that belong to three distinct groups: high frequency simple words (HFSW), low frequency simple words (LFSW), and low frequency complex words (LFCW); and (ii) a word repetition test. The variables of literacy, frequency and word morphology, and their effect on the performance of aphasic groups, were correlated in this study. Morphology was the variable that exercised the greatest influence on the verbal production of the participants.
AB - Literature suggests that illiterate subjects are unaware of the phonological structure of language. This fact may influence the characteristics of aphasic speech, namely the structure of paraphasias. A battery of tests was developed for this study to be used with aphasic subjects (literate and illiterate), in order to explore this topic in more detail. This article aims to present the experimental design and the results of this test battery composed of two sub-tests: (i) a naming test with words that belong to three distinct groups: high frequency simple words (HFSW), low frequency simple words (LFSW), and low frequency complex words (LFCW); and (ii) a word repetition test. The variables of literacy, frequency and word morphology, and their effect on the performance of aphasic groups, were correlated in this study. Morphology was the variable that exercised the greatest influence on the verbal production of the participants.
KW - Aphasia
KW - Literacy
KW - Morphology
KW - Word frequency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958567811&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3109/02699206.2010.511406
DO - 10.3109/02699206.2010.511406
M3 - Article
C2 - 20964507
AN - SCOPUS:77958567811
SN - 0269-9206
VL - 24
SP - 890
EP - 905
JO - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
JF - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
IS - 11
ER -