What can repetition, reading and naming tell us about Jargon aphasia?

Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Emma Pilkington, Karen Sage, James Douglas Saddy, Holly RobsonAbstractJargon aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterised by high proportions of nonword error production, rendering spoken language incomprehensible. There exist two major hypotheses relating to the source of nonword error; one implicates disruption to phonological processing and the other suggests both phonological and lexical contributions. The lexical sources are described as failure in lexical retrieval followed by surrogate phonological construction, or a lexical selection error further compounded by phonological breakdown. The current study analysed nonword error patterns of ten individuals with fluent neologistic Jargon ap...

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