Aphasic Evidence for Lexical and Phonological Representations

Linguistic phenomena as manifested in the case of a Hebrew-speaking aphasic are discussed in this monograph. Attention is paid to the implications for linguistic research in general, and for Semitic in particular.

Linguistic phenomena as manifested in the case of a Hebrew-speaking aphasic are discussed in this monograph. The patient’s linguistic performance included: (1)writing down forms which deviated from the standard orthography, but which corresponded remarkably well with the types of underlying phonological repre sentation that a linguist might independently propose; (2) verbal behavior which involved the frequently random transfer of verbs from one class to another; (3) restructuring of surface forms to form “novelroots; (4) errors involving the complex rule of spirantization. Attention is paid to the implications for linguistic research in general, and for Semitic in particular.

• By (author) M. Barkai