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God Damn is a poetic collection that delves into the complex relationship between a daughter and her father, who has recently suffered from a stroke. As her father grapples with Aphasia, a neurological disorder which has rendered him with a uniquely limited vocabulary, the autho…

Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is a dementia syndrome characterized by a gradual impairment of language functioning while other cognitive domains remain intact for at least two years following symptom onset. Given that PPA patients suffer progressive interference with communi…

A review of the literature indicates a facilitative effect of emotional content on communicative abilities in aphasia, including discourse production (e.g., Bloom, Borod, Obler, & Gerstman, 1992; Bloom, Borod, Santschi-Haywood, Pick, & Obler, 1996; Landis, Graves, & Goodglass, 1…

The current study investigated whether the pragmatic component of the language of individuals with aphasia is intact as manifested by a systematic encoding of information status in terms of 'oldness'/'newness' of information. An experimental study was conducted to find out how i…

The grammatical structure of Arabic allows for significant cross-linguistic comparisons in the study of Slips-of-the-tongue as well as aphasia. The dissertation presents a case study of the aphasic deficit in the speech of a speaker of Arabic, in particular, the Hijazi dialect s…