Aspects of Multilingual Aphasia

Informationen zum Autor Martin R. Gitterman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He has published in the areas of neurolinguistics, aphasia, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and applied linguistics. http: //www.lehman.edu//academics/arts-humanities/speech-language-hearing-sciences/gitterman-faculty-page.php Mira Goral, Ph.D. CCC-SLP is a Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. She also holds an appointment at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston University School of Medicine. She has published in the areas of multilingualism, aphasia, language attrition, and language and cognition in aging. Http: //www.lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/speech-language-hearing-sciences/mira.php Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, with appointments in both Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Linguistics, as well as at the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center of the Boston University School of Medicine. She has co-authored articles and books on her areas of interest: neurolinguistics, bilingualism and the brain, cross-language study of aphasia, and language in aging. http: //web.gc.cuny.edu/speechandhearing/faculty/lobler.asp Klappentext This volume presents a broad overview of current research and thought on aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. The range of topics covered, and their in-depth treatment, should be of interest to researchers, clinicians, and students.

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• Authors: Martin R Gitterman, Martin R. Gitterman
• Assisted by: Martin R Gitterman (Editor), Martin R. Gitterman (Editor), Mira Goral (Editor), Loraine K Obler (Editor), Loraine K. Obler (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2012
• EAN: 9781847697547
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-754-7
• Series: Communication Disorders Across; Communication Disorders Across
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology