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Text Comprehension and Production in Aphasia: Analysis in Terms of Micro- and Macroprocessing

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Discourse Ability and Brain Damage

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During the last two decades, most psycholinguistic research on aphasia started from the assumption that only elementary linguistic units and regularities are worth studying. According to this view, only these units and regularities are expected to have a specific impact on language production and comprehension of aphasic patients. Furthermore, the study of text and discourse processing can be disregarded for both methodological and theoretical reasons. On one hand, in text there is always complex interaction between numerous elementary linguistic parameters, which prevents a precise specification of the underlying linguistic deficit. On the other hand, those parameters that are unique to text, such as stylistic cohesion, semantic coherence, and narrative form as represented in a story grammar, appear to be irrelevant for understanding aphasia.

I thank Klaus Willmes and Ralf Glindemann for many helpful suggestions on an earlier version of this chapter. The work reported was, in part, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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    Yves Joanette Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 02167, USA

    Hiram H. Brownell Ph.D.

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Huber, W. (1990). Text Comprehension and Production in Aphasia: Analysis in Terms of Micro- and Macroprocessing. In: Joanette, Y., Brownell, H.H. (eds) Discourse Ability and Brain Damage. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3262-9_7

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