Cross-language transfer following monolingual cognate-based treatment in trilingual aphasia: a case study

Solène Hameau (1) , Barbara Köpke (1)

1 Octogone - Octogone Unité de Recherche Interdisciplinaire

Several studies have explored the possibility of a cross-language transfer (CLT) of the therapy benefits from the treated to the untreated language(s) of multilingual patients with aphasia. Kohnert (2004) observed CLT on cognate words following such a treatment in a Spanish-English bilingual with aphasia, but not on non-cognate words. Starting from Kohnert's study, we provided monolingual lexical treatment to a trilingual aphasic patient with the aim to investigate a) whether treatment is more efficient for cognates and b) whether there is CLT on cognates and non cognates from the treated L2 to the untreated L1 of this patient.

Mots clés: multilingualism; aphasia; treatment; lexical retrieval; cognates

Domaines: Linguistique

Solène Hameau, Barbara Köpke. Cross-language transfer following monolingual cognate-based treatment in trilingual aphasia: a case study. Sciences of Aphasia, Sep 2011, Barcelona, Spain. pp.114-117. ⟨hal-00905104⟩