Contents
Introduction 1
1 Neuropsycholinguistics according to Jean-Luc Nespoulous 3
PART 1 Linguistic mechanisms and the architecture of language 13
2 Phonological markedness, acquisition and language pathology: What is left of the Jakobsonian legacy? 15
3 Function versus regions in spatial language: A fundamental distinction 31
4 From language acquisition to language pathology: Cross-linguistic perspectives 46
5 Semantic subcategories of nouns and verbs: A neurolinguistic review on healthy adults and patients with Alzheimers disease 61
PART 2 The relationship between language and other cognitive processes 75
6 Phonological similarity can also impair transcoding: A study in French 77
7 Influence of musical expertise on the perception of pitch, duration and intensity variations in speech and harmonic sounds 88
8 Gestures and multimodal communication: Developmental and pathological aspects 103
9 Cognitive processes underlying pragmatic impairments after a right-hemisphere lesion 117
PART 3 Assessment of speech & language disabilities and compensatory mechanisms 129
10 Describing and interpreting variability in agrammatic speech production 131
11 Disability, repair strategies and communicative effectiveness at the phonic level: Evidence from a multiple-case study 144
12 Applying phonetic investigation methods to the assessment of dysphonia and dysarthria 166
13 Allying information and communications technology with (psycho)linguistic sciences to design alternative and augmentative communication systems for persons with speech and motor impairment 183
Appendix 6.1 199
Index 201