Abstract
Uli Grasemann and Risto Miikkukainen are with the Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA -- Chaleece Sandberg and Swathi Kiran are with the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Highlights
Bilingual aphasia, defined as a loss of one or both languages in bilingual individuals that results from left hemisphere damage, is of increasing interest worldwide because more than half of the world’s population is bilingual
Despite the importance of this topic in an increasingly bilingual world, disparities in diagnosis and treatment of bilingual aphasia continue to exist. Current research on this topic lacks specific recommendations on which languages should be trained in a bilingual aphasic individual and to what extent cross-language transfer occurs subsequent to rehabilitation
Factors contributing to the paucity of research in this area relate to the multitude of possible language combinations in a bilingual individual, the relative competency of the two languages of the bilingual individual, and the effect of focal brain damage on bilingual language representation
Summary
Bilingual aphasia, defined as a loss of one or both languages in bilingual individuals that results from left hemisphere damage, is of increasing interest worldwide because more than half of the world’s population is bilingual. Rehabilitation and cross-language transfer in bilingual aphasia: towards a computational model Current research on this topic lacks specific recommendations on which languages should be trained in a bilingual aphasic individual and to what extent cross-language transfer occurs subsequent to rehabilitation.
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