Sung Jee Eun, DeDe Gayle, Lee Soo Eun
Department of Communication Disorders, EWHA Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2016 Dec 1;25(4S):S813-S822. doi: 10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0140.
The purpose of the study was to examine cross-linguistic differences in a picture-description task between Korean- and English-speaking individuals with Broca's and anomic aphasia to determine whether a variation exists in the use of verbs and nouns across the language and aphasia groups.
Forty-eight individuals (male = 29; female = 19) participated in the study (n = 28 for aphasic group and n = 20 healthy controls). Data for English speakers were obtained from the Aphasia Bank Project. We used the picture-description task to obtain connected speech samples and analyzed noun- and verb-related linguistic variables.
Korean speakers with aphasia produced more verbs per utterance and a lower noun-to-verb ratio than English speakers with aphasia, whereas English speakers produced more nouns than Korean speakers. The Korean anomic group produced more verbs than Korean speakers with Broca's aphasia, whereas no effects were significant for English speakers with aphasia depending on the type of aphasia.
Aphasia symptoms vary as a function of linguistic features of languages that individuals with aphasia used premorbidly. Furthermore, the linguistic characteristics of the individual's language influenced aphasia symptoms more strongly than the type of aphasia. It is theoretically and clinically important that this cross-linguistic study provides different perspectives, and that noun-verb deficits may vary depending on linguistic features.
本研究旨在考察患有布罗卡失语症和命名性失语症的韩语和英语使用者在图片描述任务中的跨语言差异，以确定动词和名词的使用在不同语言和失语症群体中是否存在差异。
48名个体（男性 = 29名；女性 = 19名）参与了本研究（失语症组n = 28名，健康对照组n = 20名）。说英语者的数据来自失语症库项目。我们使用图片描述任务来获取连贯的言语样本，并分析与名词和动词相关的语言变量。
患有失语症的韩语使用者每次话语中产生的动词更多，名词与动词的比例低于患有失语症的英语使用者，而说英语者产生的名词比说韩语者更多。韩语命名性失语症组产生的动词比患有布罗卡失语症的韩语使用者更多，而对于患有失语症的英语使用者，根据失语症类型，没有显著影响。
失语症症状因失语症患者病前使用的语言的语言特征而异。此外，个体语言的语言特征对失语症症状的影响比失语症类型更强。这项跨语言研究提供了不同的视角，并且名词 - 动词缺陷可能因语言特征而异，这在理论和临床上都很重要。
