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Université de Fribourg

Impairment of both languages in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type

Manchon, Mélanie ; Buetler, Karin ; Colombo, Françoise ; Spierer, Lucas ; Assal, Frédéric ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014, vol. 18, no. 01, p. 90–100

Neuropsychological theories raise the question if in late bilinguals with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT), the second language (L2) may be more impaired than the first (L1). We compared language performance in different tasks of oral comprehension (semantic and syntactic) and production (naming, repetition and fluency) in L1 and L2 in a group of 13 late proficient bilinguals wit DAT...