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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...

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The modulation of reading strategies by language opacity in early bilinguals: an eye movement study

De León Rodríguez, Diego ; Buetler, C,, Karin A. ; Eggenberger, Noëmi ; Preisig, Basil C. ; Schumacher, Rahel ; Laganaro, Marina ; Nyffeler, Thomas ; Annoni, Jean-Marie ; Müri, René M.

In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2016, vol. 19, no. 3, p. 567–577

Converging evidences from eye movement experiments indicate that linguistic contexts influence reading strategies. However, the question of whether different linguistic contexts modulate eye movements during reading in the same bilingual individuals remains unresolved. We examined reading strategies in a transparent (German) and an opaque (French) language of early, highly proficient...

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Balanced bilinguals favor lexical processing in their opaque language and conversion system in their shallow language

Buetler, Karin A. ; Rodríguez, Diego de León ; Laganaro, Marina ; Müri, René ; Nyffeler, Thomas ; Spierer, Lucas ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Brain and Language, 2015, vol. 150, p. 166–176

Referred to as orthographic depth, the degree of consistency of grapheme/phoneme correspondences varies across languages from high in shallow orthographies to low in deep orthographies. The present study investigates the impact of orthographic depth on reading route by analyzing evoked potentials to words in a deep (French) and shallow (German) language presented to highly proficient bilinguals....

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Language context modulates reading route: an electrical neuroimaging study

Buetler, Karin A. ; Rodríguez, Diego de León ; Laganaro, Marina ; Müri, René ; Spierer, Lucas ; Annoni, Jean-Marie

In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014, vol. 8, p. article 83

Introduction: The orthographic depth hypothesis (Katz and Feldman, 1983) posits that different reading routes are engaged depending on the type of grapheme/phoneme correspondence of the language being read. Shallow orthographies with consistent grapheme/phoneme correspondences favor encoding via non-lexical pathways, where each grapheme is sequentially mapped to its corresponding phoneme. In...

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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...