The Portuguese Who Could No Longer Speak French: Primary Progressive Aphasia in a Bilingual Man

Machado, Ana Luzia Linhares Beserra; Rodrigues, Maria Damiana do Nascimento; Simoes, S.; Santana, Isabel; Soares-Fernandes, J.

doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.1.123-s.e31

Cited by 3 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Summarising our findings, we found several areas of agreement with the previously published single-case studies (Filley et al, 2006;Hernandez et al, 2008;Machado et al, 2010), as we found evidence of earlier (within the clinical history) and more serious (in terms of severity) deterioration of PO's L2 than of her L1. In particular, the areas of deterioration concerned phonology (more phonemic paraphasias in L2), morphology and syntax (more morphological and grammatical errors in L2) and lexical-decision capacities (more errors in L2).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…The third case was briefly described in a letter to the editor by Machado et al (2010). Their PPA patient was a middle-aged native speaker of Portuguese who was exposed to French in childhood for a few years and then again in adulthood (thus representing a case of late exposure to L2).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To date, only three clinical cases of bilingual subjects with PPA have been described. These three cases (Filley, Ramsberger, Menn, Wu, Reid, and Reid, 2006;Hernandez, Cano, Costa, Sebastian-Galles, Juncadella, and Gascon-Bayarri, 2008;Machado, Rodrigues, Simoes, Santana, and Soares-Fernandes, 2010) differ in terms of the patients' age at first exposure to their first language (L1) and second language (L2) and of the neurolinguistic methods used (e.g. only the first case was investigated by means of a standardised linguistic battery).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Primary progressive aphasia in a bilingual speaker: a single-case study

Zanini

Angeli

Tavano

2011

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We report on the case of an elderly bilingual woman presenting with a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia. The participant's native language was Friulian (L1), a predominantly oral Romance language, and her second language was Italian (L2), formally learned at primary school in oral and written forms. We investigated her linguistic abilities by means of the Bilingual Aphasia Test ( Paradis, M., & Libben, G. (1987). The assessment of bilingual aphasia. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates), which is specifically devised for studying language levels and skills in bilingual/polyglot individuals with aphasia. Specifically, we focused on different tasks extracted from the Bilingual Aphasia Test, targeting phonology, morphology, syntax and lexical semantics. Results show that both languages were affected to a clinically significant degree, but with different profiles in terms of linguistic levels, suggesting the presence of greater phonological, morphological, grammatical and syntactic impairments in L2. Results are discussed in terms of possible dissociations both within the language system of each language and between languages, within the Procedural/Declarative theoretical framework of language acquisition in bilinguals.

show abstract

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Primary progressive aphasia in a bilingual speaker: a single-case study

Zanini

Angeli

Tavano

2011

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…As a result, the level of generalizability of positive treatment effects to other individuals remains unclear. Furthermore, no treatment studies involving bilingual or multilingual individuals with PPA have been reported previously, although the language deficits of these individuals have been described in the literature (Druks & Weekes, 2013; Filley et al, 2006; Hernandez et al, 2008; Kambanaros & Grohmann, 2012; Larner, 2012; Liu, Yip, Fan, & Meguro, 2012; Machado, Rodrigues, Simoes, Santana, & Soares-Fernandes, 2010; Zanini, Angeli, & Tavano, 2011). The current study is a valuable contribution, as it expands the PPA literature to include a Norwegian-English bilingual individual, and it is the first study to examine cross-language transfer of treatment effects in bilingual PPA.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prophylactic treatments for anomia in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia: cross-language transfer

Meyer

Snider

Eckmann³

et al. 2015

Aphasiology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background Treatment studies for anomia in PPA have rarely compared multiple treatments in the same individual, and few anomia treatment studies have included participants with the logopenic variant of PPA (lvPPA). Aims The goals of this study were to evaluate two types of treatment for anomia in a bilingual participant (ND) with lvPPA, and to examine possible cross-language transfer of treatment effects. Methods & Procedures ND is a Norwegian-English bilingual woman with lvPPA who began this study at the age of 69. In the phonological treatment, ND listened to a word while viewing a corresponding picture, and she repeated the word. In the orthographic treatment, ND read a word out loud while viewing the corresponding picture, and she then copied the word. Both treatments were conducted in English, and accuracy for three tasks (oral naming, written naming, and naming to definition) was assessed in English and Norwegian. The treatment occurred over a one-year period, with eight sessions at the laboratory during the first month, followed by monthly laboratory sessions and thrice-weekly home practice sessions during the subsequent 11 months. Post-treatment assessments were conducted at 1 week, 8 months, 1 year, 20 months, and 3 years. Outcomes & Results Compared to untrained items, the orthographic treatment resulted in greater English written naming accuracy. This treatment also resulted in cross-language transfer: greater Norwegian oral naming and naming to definition accuracy. The phonological treatment resulted in marginally greater English oral naming accuracy, but it did not have a significant effect on naming accuracy in Norwegian. Conclusions These findings suggest that the orthographic treatment was effective in strengthening the orthographic representations of the treated items, which facilitated ND's written naming performance. The pattern of cross-language transfer suggests that the orthographic treatment also strengthened the language-independent semantic representations of the treated items, thereby facilitating access to their Norwegian phonological representations.

show abstract