Bilingualism and Aphasia

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on aphasia and bilingualism. Recovery is said to be antagonistic when one language regresses as the other progresses. Recovery is said to be successive when one language does not begin to reappear until another has been restored. Successive recovery may also be a part of a selective restitution pattern. The chapter presents a case study of a patient who first recovered from his Bulgarian mother tongue and then from German and Russian, but recovered from neither French nor English. Recovery is said to be selective when the patient does not regain one or more of his languages. It has also been observed that sometimes the language preferentially recovered is neither the mother tongue nor the most fluent language but the language of the patient's milieu, that is, the language spoken by the hospital staff. However, no single characteristic of the language preferentially restituted seems to be the determining factor of its recovery.

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