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Mortensen, Lynne – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2005
This qualitative study investigated written discourse in the form of personal letters written by ten people with aphasia following stroke and ten people with cognitive-language disorder as a consequence of traumatic brain injury, and compared their performance with 15 non brain-damaged writers. Personal letters perform the dual function of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pathology, Linguistics, Text Structure