Abstract:Research on the phonology of aphasia has been mainly on the language of aphasics who are first language speakers. Only few studies on Nigerian aphasics have been concerned with linguistic analysis. This situation is quite unhealthy for the treatment and rehabilitation of Nigerian aphasics. Therefore, this paper examined the segmental phonology of bilingual Nigerian Wernicke's aphasics to provide explanation for the noticeable patterns of their phonology. Ten bilingual Nigerian adult Wernicke's aphasics from a … Show more
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