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Lexical Processing Deficits in Persons with Aphasia-A Syntactic Approach

Abstract

Individuals with aphasia commonly experience word retrieval deficits, particularly concerning nouns and verbs. This study focuses on Kannada-speaking Persons with Aphasia (PWA) and Neurotypical Individuals (NTI), employing qualitative and quantitative methods to assess word class deficits at single-word and discourse levels. Confrontation naming and picture description tasks were used, with PWA performing poorer than NTI. The statistical analysis revealed significant differences in word class usage between PWA and NTI for picture description (p<0.05). Notably, deficits were more pronounced in discourse tasks, emphasizing the importance of including discourse analysis in aphasia assessments. This study advocates incorporating discourse analysis to enhance the understanding of language characteristics at the syntax level, supported by statistical outcomes, in routine diagnostic assessments of aphasia.

Yashaswini Channabasave Gowda*, Hema Nagaraj

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