Université de Fribourg

Language specificity of lexical-phonological therapy in bilingual aphasia: A clinical and electrophysiological study

Radman, Narges ; Spierer, Lucas ; Laganaro, Marina ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Colombo, Françoise

In: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2016, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 532–557

Based on findings for overlapping representations of bilingual people's first (L1) and second (L2) languages, unilingual therapies of bilingual aphasia have been proposed to benefit the untrained language. However, the generalisation patterns of intra- and cross-language and phonological therapy and their neural bases remain unclear. We tested whether the effects of an intensive...

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...