What Influences Language Impairment in Bilingual Aphasia? A Meta-Analytic Review.

ABSTRACT: Patterns of language impairment in multilingual speakers with post-stroke aphasia are diverse: in some cases the language deficits are parallel, that is, all languages are impaired relatively equally, whereas in other cases deficits are differential, that is, one language is more impaired than the other(s). This diversity stems from the intricate structure of the multilingual language system, which is shaped by a complex interplay of influencing factors, such as age of language acquisition, frequency of language use, premorbid proficiency, and linguistic similarity between one's languages. Previous theoretical reviews and empirical studies shed some light on these factors, however no clear answers have been provided. The goals of this review were to provide a timely update on the increasin

SUBMITTER: Kuzmina E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6460996 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature