A direct processing route to translate words from the first to the second language: Evidence from a case of a bilingual aphasic

Detry, Caroline; Pillon, Agnesa; Courtray, Marie-Pierre de Partz de

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.07.014

Cited by 12 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…RTs showed that cognates were also recognized faster (but not significantly due to high RT variance) than were controls in both languages, which corroborates the findings. These findings are in line with previous studies that reported more efficient processing of cognates compared with noncognates (Detry et al, 2005;Kohnert, 2004;Roberts & Deslauriers, 1999) in patients with parallel aphasia.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 95%

“…For instance, Roberts and Deslauriers (1999) found that bilingual aphasic patients with parallel aphasia were able to name more pictures of cognates than of noncognates, in both languages. Similarly, Detry, Pillon, and de Partz (2005) administered a picture-word verification task and a naming task with cognates and noncognates in a patient with French-English parallel aphasia with agrammatism and word-finding difficulties. In both tasks, the patient's performance was higher for the cognates compared with the noncognates.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Cognate Effects and Executive Control in a Patient with Differential Bilingual Aphasia

Verreyt

Letter

Hemelsoet

et al. 2013

Applied Neuropsychology: Adult

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We describe a case study of a French-Dutch bilingual patient with differential aphasia, showing clearly larger impairments in Dutch than in French. We investigated whether this differential impairment in both languages was due to selective damage to language-specific brain areas resulting in the "loss" of the language representation itself, or rather if it reflects an executive control deficit. We assessed cross-linguistic interactions (involving lexical activation in the most affected language) with cognates in a lexical decision (LD) task, and executive control using a flanker task. We used a generalized LD task (any word requires a "yes" response) and a selective LD task in the patient's two languages (only words in a given target language require a "yes" response). The cognate data unveil a differential pattern in the three tasks, with a clear cognate facilitation effect in the generalized LD tasks and almost no cognate effect in the selective LD tasks. This implies that a more impaired language can still affect the processing of words in the best-preserved language, but only with low cross-language competition demands (generalized LD). Additionally, the flanker task showed a larger congruency effect for the patient compared with controls, indicating cognitive control difficulties. Together, these results support accounts of differential bilingual aphasia in terms of language-control difficulties.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 95%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognate Effects and Executive Control in a Patient with Differential Bilingual Aphasia

Verreyt

Letter

Hemelsoet

et al. 2013

Applied Neuropsychology: Adult

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A possible explanation for the lack of or less pronounced generalization in treatment studies (even in early bilinguals with equal language proficiency) has been provided by Laganaro and Overton-Venet (2001): the authors suggest, that treatment only generalizes when common computational processes (i.e., a task requires the same strategies in both languages) are targeted. This is in line with studies that found more pronounced recovery and enhanced transfer of treatment gains across languages during picture naming treatment for cognates (i.e., words that overlap in form and meaning in different languages) but not for non-cognates (Detry, Pillon, & de Partz, 2005;Kohnert, 2004;Lalor & Kirsner, 2001;Roberts & Deslauriers, 1999). Moreover, Edmonds and Kiran (2006) investigated transfer patterns of a semantic naming treatment that was consecutively provided in English and Spanish in two English-Spanish bilingual aphasics.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 52%

“…One explanation for the lack of treatment generalization to French could be that the picture naming task we used did not appeal to rule-governed phenomena (as would morphosyntactic and phonological tasks). Therefore, one would not necessarily expect transfer to the untreated language, with the possible exception of cognates (Detry et al, 2005;Kohnert, 2004;Lalor & Kirsner, 2001;Roberts & Deslauriers, 1999). Even though the present study was not specifically designed to elucidate the influence of cognate nouns on naming performance, 26 of the 80 stimuli that were used for fMRI stimulation were cognate nouns [e.g., German-French (English): Rasierer-rasoir (shaver), Bank-banc (bench), Kaenguru-kangourou (kangaroo)].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovery from aphasia as a function of language therapy in an early bilingual patient demonstrated by fMRI

et al. 2007

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Knowledge about the recovery of language functions in bilingual aphasic patients who suffer from left-hemispheric stroke is scarce. Here, we present the case of an early bilingual patient (German/French) with chronic aphasia. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate neural correlates of language performance during an overt picture naming task in German and French (a) 32 months after stroke to assess differential recovery of both languages as a function of the preceding language therapy that was provided exclusively in German and (b) after additional short-term intensive (German) language training. At the first investigation behavioral performance confirmed selective recovery of German naming ability which was associated with increased functional brain activation compared to the French naming condition. Changes in behavioral performance and brain activation pattern as disclosed by fMRI after an additional experimental treatment were confined to the trained (German) language and indicate bilateral neuroplastic reorganization. No generalization to the untrained (French) language was observed. The present case results demonstrate use and/or training-dependent differential recovery of expressive language functions and an enhanced pattern of brain activation as a function of the rehabilitation efforts that were focussed exclusively on the patient's German language abilities.

show abstract

“…'s three languages by assuming that there were three separate language-specific lexical impairments. Alternatively, a more parsimonious explanation would be to consider the proposal by several authors that highly proficient bi(multi)linguals have direct lexical connections between languages that bypass the semantic system (Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2007;Detry, Pillon, & de Partz, 2005). This is schematically illustrated in Figures 1 -3.…”

Section: Account Of Nk's Verb Deficitmentioning

confidence: 95%

Grammatical category dissociation in multilingual aphasia

Faroqi‐Shah¹,

Waked²

2010

Cognitive Neuropsychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Word retrieval deficits for specific grammatical categories, such as verbs versus nouns, occur as a consequence of brain damage. Such deficits are informative about the nature of lexical organization in the human brain. This study examined retrieval of grammatical categories across three languages in a trilingual person with aphasia who spoke Arabic, French, and English. In order to delineate the nature of word production difficulty, comprehension was tested, and a variety of concomitant lexical-semantic variables were analysed. The patient demonstrated a consistent noun-verb dissociation in picture naming and narrative speech, with severely impaired production of verbs across all three languages. The cross-linguistically similar noun-verb dissociation, coupled with little evidence of semantic impairment, suggests that (a) the patient has a true "nonsemantic" grammatical category specific deficit, and (b) lexical organization in multilingual speakers shares grammatical class information between languages. The findings of this study contribute to our understanding of the architecture of lexical organization in bilinguals.

show abstract

A direct processing route to translate words from the first to the second language: Evidence from a case of a bilingual aphasic

Cited by 12 publications

References 0 publications

Cognate Effects and Executive Control in a Patient with Differential Bilingual Aphasia

Cognate Effects and Executive Control in a Patient with Differential Bilingual Aphasia

Recovery from aphasia as a function of language therapy in an early bilingual patient demonstrated by fMRI

Grammatical category dissociation in multilingual aphasia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About