Posted: March 7th, 2016

Characterise the language of the aphasic patient in terms of word classes, morpheme use, sentence length, as well as errors. Discuss with relevance to the literature what type of aphasia is involved in this case.

1. Below is a conversation between a female aphasic patient and a clinician, taken from https://www.talkbank.org/data/aphasia/

Characterise the language of the aphasic patient in terms of word classes, morpheme use, sentence length, as well as errors. Discuss with relevance to the literature what type of aphasia is involved in this case.

EXA: when did you get back from your ct scan?

*CLI: oh I forget .

*CLI: it was (right) right.

*CLI: (when I see y) when I see you.

*CLI: no, remember .

*CLI: (we s) about an (ah) about.