Université de Fribourg

Language and syntactic impairment following stroke in late bilingual aphasics

Tschirren, Muriel ; Laganaro, Marina ; Michel, Patrik ; Martory, Marie-Dominique ; Di Pietro, Marie ; Abutalebi, Jubin ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Brain and Language, 2011, vol. 119, no. 3, p. 238-242

Purpose :Bilingual aphasia generally affects both languages. However, the age of acquisition of the second language (L2) seems to play a role in the anatomo-functional correlation of the syntactical/grammatical processes, thus potentially influencing the L2 syntactic impairment following a stroke. The present study aims to analyze the influence of late age of acquisition of the L2 on syntactic...

Université de Fribourg

White matter in aphasia: A historical review of the Dejerines’ studies

Krestel, Heinz ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Jagella, Caroline

In: Brain and Language, 2013, vol. 127, no. 3, p. 526–532

The Objective was to describe the contributions of Joseph Jules Dejerine and his wife Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke to our understanding of cerebral association fiber tracts and language processing. The Dejerines (and not Constantin von Monakow) were the first to describe the superior longitudinal fasciculus/arcuate fasciculus (SLF/AF) as an association fiber tract uniting Broca’s area, Wernicke’s...