TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fyndanis, Valantis
A1  - Lind, Marianne
A1  - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
A1  - Kambanaros, Maria
A1  - Soroli, Efstathia
A1  - Ceder, Klaudia
A1  - Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
A1  - Rofes, Adrià
A1  - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
A1  - Bjekić, Jovana
A1  - Gavarró, Anna
A1  - Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač
A1  - Martínez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Munarriz, Amaia
A1  - Pourquie, Marie
A1  - Vuksanović, Jasmina
A1  - Zakariás, Lilla
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test
BT  - challenges and solutions
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - assessment
KW  - Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
KW  - cross-linguistic adaptations
KW  - outcome measures
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 7-9
SP  - 697
EP  - 710
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yue, Jinxing
A1  - Alter, Kai-Uwe
A1  - Howard, David
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
T1  - Early access to lexical-level phonological representations of Mandarin word-forms
BT  - evidence from auditory N1 habituation
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - An auditory habituation design was used to investigate whether lexical-level phonological representations in the brain can be rapidly accessed after the onset of a spoken word. We studied the N1 component of the auditory event-related electrical potential, and measured the amplitude decrements of N1 associated with the repetition of a monosyllabic tone word and an acoustically similar pseudo-word in Mandarin Chinese. Effects related to the contrastive onset consonants were controlled for by introducing two control words. We show that repeated pseudo-words consistently elicit greater amplitude decrements in N1 than real words. Furthermore, this lexicality effect is free from sensory fatigue or rapid learning of the pseudo-word. These results suggest that a lexical-level phonological representation of a spoken word can be accessed as early as 110ms after the onset of the word-form.
KW  - Auditory N1
KW  - short-term habituation
KW  - spoken word
KW  - Mandarin Chinese
KW  - language
KW  - event-related potential
KW  - lexical access
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1290261
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 32
IS  - 9
SP  - 1148
EP  - 1163
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -