Cross-language Study of Aphasi

SPCH

82300

Cross-language Study of Aphasi

This course will review the literature on how aphasia manifests differently in different languages, while considering the implications for linguistic and aphasiological theory. Students will choose a language to report on, and introduce the class to the phonological, morphological, syntactic and pragmatic structures that might be expected to break down in aphasia in that language.In the next set of classes, students will present on what is known about aphasia in the language they have chosen, leading the class in discussion of the papers they have selected for the entire class to read on the topic. For the final project, students will conduct original analyses of data from a patient who speaks that language, either from data they have available, or from the chapters in Menn and Obler, 1999.

Offer as needed

Graduate School Graduate

Yes

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