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Testing Idiom Comprehension in Aphasic Patients: The Effects of Task and Idiom Type
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Papagno, C.; Caporali, A. – Brain and Language, 2007
Idiom comprehension in 15 aphasic patients was assessed with three tasks: a sentence-to-picture matching task, a sentence-to-word matching task and an oral definition task. The results of all three tasks showed that the idiom comprehension in aphasic patients was impaired compared to that of the control group, and was significantly affected by the…
Descriptors: Patients, Language Patterns, Figurative Language, Control Groups
Processing Homonymy and Polysemy: Effects of Sentential Context and Time-Course Following Unilateral Brain Damage
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Klepousniotou, Ekaterini; Baum, Shari R. – Brain and Language, 2005
The present study investigated the abilities of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD), and normal control individuals to access, in sentential biasing contexts, the multiple meanings of three types of ambiguous words, namely homonyms (e.g., ''punch''), metonymies (e.g., ''rabbit''), and metaphors (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Neurological Impairments, Aphasia
Idiom Comprehension in Aphasic Patients
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Papagno, Costanza; Tabossi, Patrizia; Colombo, Maria Rosa; Zampetti, Patrizia – Brain and Language, 2004
Idiom comprehension was assessed in 10 aphasic patients with semantic deficits by means of a string-to-picture matching task. Patients were also submitted to an oral explanation of the same idioms, and to a word comprehension task. The stimuli of this last task were the words following the verb in the idioms. Idiom comprehension was severely…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Aphasia, Oral Language