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Thu Oct 17 2002

Books: Applied Linguistics: Fava

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1. paul, Clinical Linguistics: Fava (ed.)

			
Title: Clinical Linguistics
Subtitle: Theory and applications in speech pathology and therapy
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins 
 http://www.benjamins.com/

Editor: Elisabetta Fava 

Hardback: ISBN: 9027247358, Pages: xxiv, 353 pp., Price: EUR 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112233, Pages: xxiv, 353 pp., Price: USD 86.00
			
Abstract:

This book covers different aspects of speech and language pathology
and it offers a fairly comprehensive overview of the complexity and
the emerging importance of the field, by identifying and re-examining,
from different perspectives, a number of standard assumptions in
clinical linguistics and in cognitive sciences. The papers encompass
different issues in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and
pragmatics, discussed with respect to deafness, stuttering, child
acquisition and impairments, SLI, William's Syndrome deficit, fluent
aphasia and agrammatism. The interdisciplinary complexity of the
language/cognition interface is also explored by focusing on empirical
data from different languages: Bantu, Catalan, Dutch, English, German,
Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. The aim of this volume
is to stress the growing importance of the theoretical and
methodological linguistic tools developed in this area; to bring under
scrutiny assumptions taken for granted in recent analyses, which may
not be so obvious as they may seem; to investigate how even apparently
minimal choices in the description of phenomena may affect the form
and complexity of the language/cognition interface.

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword ix 

I. Phonology in clinical applications 
Phonology as Human behavior: Theoretical implications and cognitive
and clinical applications
 Yishai Tobin 3 
Segmental vs syllable markedness: Deletion errors in the paraphasias
of fluent and non-fluent aphasics
 Dirk-Bart den Ouden 23 

II. Words in deafness and stuttering 
Morphosyntactic fragility in the spoken and written Italian of the
deaf
 Roberto Ajello, Giovanna Marotta, Laura Mazzoni and Florida
 Nicolai 49
The EXPLAN theory of fluency control applied to the diagnosis of
stuttering
 Peter Howell and James Au-Yeung 75 
The EXPLAN theory of fluency control applied to the treatment of
stuttering
 Peter Howell 95 

III. Morphology and syntax in child language disorders 
Verb Movement and finiteness in language impairment and language
development
 Roelien Bastiaanse, Gerard Bol, Sofie van Mol and Shalom
 Zuckerman 119
A-bar movement constructions in Greek children with SLI: Evidence for
deficits in the syntactic component of language
 Stavroula Stavrakaki 131 
Morphological accessibility in Zulu 
 Susan M. Suzman 155 
Language production in Japanese preschoolers with SLI: Testing
theories
 Yumiko Tanaka Welty, Jun Watanabe and Lise Menn 175 

IV. Issues on grammar and cognition 
Testing linguistic concepts: Are we testing semantics, syntax or
pragmatics?
 Leah Paltiel-Gedalyovich 197 
SLI and modularity: Linguistic and non-linguistic explanations 
 Dus^ana Ryb�rov� 213 
The language/cognition interface: Lessons from SLI and Williams
Syndrome
 Vesna Stojanovik, Mick Perkins and Sara Howard 229 

V. Grammatical structure in aphasia 
Grammar and fluent aphasia 
 Susan Edwards 249 
Failure to Agree in agrammatism 
 Anna Gavarr� 267 
The Verb and Sentence test: Assessing verb and sentence comprehension
and production in aphasia
 Judith Rispens, Roelien Bastiaanse and Susan Edwards 279 
Case assignment as an explanation for determiner omission in German
agrammatic speech
 Esther Ruigendijk 299 
The role of verbal morphology in aphasia during lexical access:
Evidence from Greek
 Kyrana Tsapkini, Gonia Jarema and Eva Kehaya 315 
Index of Subjects & Terms 337 
List of Contributors 345

Lingfield(s): Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)