Idiom comprehension in aphasic patients  

Oleh:

Papagno, Costanza ; Tabossi, Patrizia ; Colombo, Maria Rosa ; Zampetti, Patrizia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 89 no. 1 (2004), page 226-234.
Topik: Idiom comprehension; Aphasia; Semantic memory; Syntactic analysis
Fulltext: 89_01_Papagno.pdf (555.92KB)

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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 impaired, with a bias toward the literal interpretation. Very few errors were produced with words, making impossible to establish a correlation between comprehension of idioms and of individual words. The difficulties in idiom comprehension seemed to be due to the fact that patients rely on a literalfirst strategy, accessing a figurative interpretation only when the linguistic analysis fails to yield acceptable results.

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