Recent developments in the study of agrammatism: Their import for the assessment of bilingual aphasia

Abstract Recent developments in the study of agrammatism are examined. Each of the various questions generated by the discussion about agrammatism over the past 5 years, from the very nature of the deficit to the nature of its causes and the language-specific realization of its symptoms, creates problems for the assessment of bilingual aphasia. While bilingual aphasia should provide answers to some of the questions about agrammatism, the characteristics of agrammatism in all languages concerned must be known before bilingual aphasia can be meaningfully assessed. The form of the observed deficit may be a function of the specific structure of each language. It is therefore essential to know what the manifestations of the deficit are in each language so as to avoid the erroneous diagnosis of agrammatism in one of the patient's languages and of paragrammatism in the other.

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