TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Reyes, Andres Felipe
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
T1  - Overcoming discourse-linking difficulties in aphasia
BT  - the case of clitic pronouns
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - The present study aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact of discourse-linking deficits on the performance of individuals with aphasia by providing new data from a set of rarely investigated constructions: sentences in which a clitic pronoun coexists alongside with the full DP it agrees with. To do so, we use data of individuals with non-fluent aphasias who need to overcome the difficulties in direct object (accusative) clitic production. This results in overproduction of non-target clitic right dislocations (RDs) and clitic doubling (CD). Data from 15 individual’s native speakers of Spanish and Catalan are discussed. Data complement the results of previous investigations on discourse-linking effects in these languages, allowing the interpretation of results across constructions.
KW  - Clitic pronouns
KW  - discourse
KW  - aphasia
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Catalan
Y1  - 0207
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308015
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 6
SP  - 459
EP  - 477
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin
A1  - Linnik, Anastasia
A1  - Law, Sam-Po
A1  - Shum, Waisa Wai-Man
T1  - Measuring discourse coherence in anomic aphasia using Rhetorical Structure Theory
JF  - International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
N2  - Purpose: The existing body of work regarding discourse coherence in aphasia has provided mixed results, leaving the question of coherence being impaired or intact as a result of brain injury unanswered. In this study, discourse coherence in non-brain-damaged (NBD) speakers and speakers with anomic aphasia was investigated quantitatively and qualitatively. Method: Fifteen native speakers of Cantonese with anomic aphasia and 15 NBD participants produced 60 language samples. Elicitation tasks included story-telling induced by a picture series and a procedural description. The samples were annotated for discourse structure in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) in order to analyse a number of structural parameters. After that 20 naive listeners rated coherence of each sample. Result: Disordered discourse was rated as significantly less coherent. The NBD group demonstrated a higher production fluency than the participants with aphasia and used a richer set of semantic relations to create discourse, particularly in the description of settings, expression of causality, and extent of elaboration. People with aphasia also tended to omit essential information content. Conclusion: Reduced essential information content, lower degree of elaboration, and a larger amount of structural disruptions may have contributed to the reduced overall discourse coherence in speakers with anomic aphasia.
KW  - discourse analysis
KW  - aphasia
KW  - speech-language pathology
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1293158
SN  - 1754-9507
SN  - 1754-9515
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
SP  - 406
EP  - 421
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -