SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lesion, Sparse Language, Pragmatics
29 Mar 2017
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If the connection between the two hemispheres is hurt, a lot of things will start to go wrong. The brain uses a lot of oxygen via blood off of the aorta, there is a direct line to the brain via the vertebral artery. In the brain, everything is connected, there are a lot of very important blood vessels and they all matter. An acquired disturbance in the language system. The result of neurological injury to the language dominant hemisphere of the brain. Affects expressive and receptive capabilities of both spoken and written language. * ischemic stroke: due to a blood clot: thrombotic episode, embolism. * hemorrhagic stroke: due to everything else besides a blood clot. Neologisms: creations of new words that aren"t really accepted as words. Language 1 > language 2 or language 2 > language 1. Language 1 affected, language 2 preserved or language 2 affected, language 1 preserved. Aphasias can also affect reading and writing.
