Using PRISM to profile semantic ability in Greek

Abstract

This paper aims to show how PRISM-L and PRISM-G (Crystal, 1992) can be used to profile semantic ability or difficulties in Greek speakers. The two profiles were used for the analysis of three samples provided by one adult participant with aphasia and two normally developing children of 4;8 and 6;8 years old, respectively. The profiling procedure showed that PRISM can provided specific information regarding the range of the lexicon of an individual as well as details about the semantic analysis of their sentences. Based on PRISM, one can see the developmental course of a child and identify areas of clinical interest for further development or locate specific semantic difficulties at word and sentence level in adults with language impairments.

Semantic abilities and narration in aphasia in Greek

“…The speech samples were collected through story-telling, with the use of a Cinderella story booklet with pictures (Berndt, Wayland, Rochon, Saffran, Schwartz 2000). The collected samples were analyzed with the use PRISM (Crystal 1992), which was adapted into Greek (Nasika, Afantenou, Kremmyda 2017). More specifically, the samples were analyzed at a lexical level with PRISM-L and at a thematic structure level with PRISM-G.…”