Abstract

This chapter highlights the different perspectives of the syndromes and symptoms of aphasia, which can provide a glimpse of the impaired performance with reference to the cognitive–linguistic mechanisms that may be involved. A cognitive–psycho–linguistic approach to the study of aphasia is likely to generate results that are helpful for other reasons. One of the psycholinguistic theories is concerned mainly with the computations believed to take place during language use. The essential supposition of psycholinguistic theories and the one on which several other statements depend is that of the modular structure of psycholinguistic processes. However, the problems pertaining to defining syndromes have apparent connotation for the study of agrammatism.

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