Action naming in anomic aphasic speakers: Effects of instrumentality and name relation

Does verb type affect action naming in specific language impairment (SLI)? Evidence from instrumentality and name relation

“…Similarly, name relation, a phonological-lexical feature operating at the level of the phonological word form, has revealed contradictory results on action naming in individuals with aphasia: a positive effect on instrumental verbs with a name relation easier to retrieve than those without (Jonkers & Bastiaanse, 1996, 2007Kemmerer & Tranel, 2000), a negative effect (Bastiaanse, 1991;Kambanaros & van Steenbrugge, 2006), and no effect (Bastiaanse, 1991;Jonkers, 1998;Kambanaros & van Steenbrugge, 2006). 3 Given the evidence from the SLI literature so far, the hypothesis was that both instrumental verbs (semantic complex) and name-related instrumental verbs (semantic þ phonological information) should be more difficult to retrieve on a confrontation naming task for children with SLI compared to non-instrumental verbs and non-name-related instrumental verbs, respectively.…”

“…Instrumentality, a conceptual-semantic factor, has been shown to significantly affect verb retrieval either in a positive way by facilitating action naming in fluent aphasia (Bastiaanse & Jonkers, 1998;Jonkers & Bastiaanse, 1996, 2007Kambanaros, 2009a;Kambanaros & van Steenbrugge, 2006) or in a negative way by hindering verb retrieval in non-fluent aphasia (Bastiaanse & Jonkers, 1998;Jonkers & Bastiaanse, 1996, 2007dor to have no effect on action naming irrespective of aphasia type (Kemmerer & Tranel, 2000). Similarly, name relation, a phonological-lexical feature operating at the level of the phonological word form, has revealed contradictory results on action naming in individuals with aphasia: a positive effect on instrumental verbs with a name relation easier to retrieve than those without (Jonkers & Bastiaanse, 1996, 2007Kemmerer & Tranel, 2000), a negative effect (Bastiaanse, 1991;Kambanaros & van Steenbrugge, 2006), and no effect (Bastiaanse, 1991;Jonkers, 1998;Kambanaros & van Steenbrugge, 2006).…”

The retrieval and inflection of verbs in the spontaneous speech of fluent aphasic speakers

“…They participated in a larger study on verb and noun retrieval (see Bastiaanse & Jonkers, 1998;Jonkers & Bastiaanse, 2007). As a group, they were significantly worse on action naming than on object naming.…”

A minimal standardization setting for language mapping tests: an Italian example

“…Among other dimensions, deficits may be semantic in nature, as suggested by performance on low Imageability items [20], Biological/Artifactual entities and Semantic categories [17]. Deficits may affect the lexicons, as indicated by lower scores related to the H-statistic 1 [14], written word Frequency [21], Age of acquisition [21], word Length in phonemes/syllables [23], Instrumentality and Name-relatedness to a noun [24]. Or, they may affect segmental processes as shown by word Length effects [23].…”