Detail Aspects of the Grammar of the Spoken English of a Yoruba Stroke Patient   Oleh:  Salami, L. Oladipo ; Akande, Akinmade T. Jenis: Article from Journal Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 3 no. 1 (Jan. 2006), page 26-37. Fulltext: l. oladipo salami.pdf (60.45KB) Isi artikel Evidence abound that brain damage due to stroke often results in language impairment. However, there is no reported linguistic study, as far as we know, on the impact of stroke on either the English or Yoruba speech of a Yoruba-speaking patient in Nigeria. The main objective of the present study, therefore, is to find out the effect of brain damage, resulting from stroke, on the English speech of a Yoruba-speaker of English as a second language. In the present paper, we report and analyze syntactic disturbances in the speech of a 58-year-old female stroke patient who was diagnosed as having expressive aphasia. Although the result of her language performance shows that the patient’s speech was grammatically deviant in that she often omitted some grammatical items like auxiliaries, articles, prepositions and pronouns, contrary to known characteristics of agrammatic patients (cf. expressive aphasia), she could still use some grammatical items in their proper syntactic environments. However, her speech manifested some evidence of selection errors in the use of the first person personal pronoun. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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