bilingual apasia

Question 1

what age do late bilingual speakers acquire L2?

Answer 1

roughly after the age of 12

Question 2

what is code switching?

Answer 2

alternating use of one’s languages

Question 3

bilingualism and the brain use _____ resources. There is a lot of _______.

Answer 3

neural

overlap

Question 4

what part of the brain in known as the “language switch”

Answer 4

caudate

Question 5

where is the “language switch” found?

Answer 5

subcortical (basal ganglia)

Question 6

If there is damage to this part of the brain it is difficult to code switch or the person will involuntarily switch.

Answer 6

caudate

Question 7

if a person is bilingual it means that they have more activity on the right hemisphere. t/f

Answer 7

f

Question 8

speech production tasks for early bilingual children show a lot of _____ on the brain.

Answer 8

overlap

Question 9

speech production tasks for late bilingual children show no _____ on the brain.

Answer 9

overlap

Question 10

T/F Age of acquisition greatly affects how the brain processes each language

Answer 10

t

Question 11

increased overlap occurs with being ___ proficient in multiple languages.

Answer 11

more

Question 12

Brain scans will show _____ overlap when a person starts to lose one language.

Answer 12

less

Question 13

Language proficiency greatly affects how the brain processes each language

Answer 13

t

Question 14

Latino adults are __ times as likely to have an ischemic stroke due to inactivity, obesity, & diabetes than non-Latino White peers

Answer 14

2

Question 15

recovery patterns reported show that L1 & L2 recover at the same ____ to the same _____.

Answer 15

rate

level

Question 16

what is differential recovery?

Answer 16

one language is recovered more than the other.

Question 17

what is antagonistic recovery?

Answer 17

L1 initially is better, but then L2 improves and L1 basically disappears

Question 18

what is Alternating Antagonism recovery

Answer 18

the antagonistic pattern occurs, then switches back and forth (either be on a daily basis, or several months)

Question 19

what is selective aphasia?

Answer 19

deficits are only in one language

Question 20

what is successive recovery?

Answer 20

one language improves, then the other

Question 21

what is blending recovery?

Answer 21

unintentional mixing of both languages’ word and grammatical construction. (NOT CODE SWITCHING)

Question 22

What is paradoxical translation?

Answer 22

you can switch from L1 to L2 but you cant switch L2 to L1

english–>spanish but not spanish–>english

Question 23

what are 4 translation deficits?

Answer 23

1. inability to translate
2. paradoxical
3. translation without comprehension
4. spontaneous

Question 24

what is spontaneous translation?

Answer 24

Involuntarily translate everything they hear; cannot inhibit the translating

Question 25

______ & _____ typically mimic language deficits.

Answer 25

reading and writing

Question 26

So, it is possible that L1 reading = fine, while L2 reading = impaired
Or, even:
L1 reading = fine, writing = poor
L2 reading = poor, writing = fine

Answer 26

t

Question 27

A Bilingual’s recovery is NOT related to:

Answer 27

L1 = more left hemisphere

L2 = more right hemisphere

Question 28

bilinguals do NOT use more right hemisphere resources than monolinguals

Answer 28

t

Question 29

why don’t you see overlap on brain scans with bilingual aphasics?

Answer 29

part of the brain is damaged.

Question 30

A Bilingual’s recovery may be related to:

Answer 30

1. general cognitive functions
2. cognitive control/selection issues
3. loss of inhibitory processes.(suppressing one language)

Question 31

_____ of damage greatly affects the degree to which each language is affected:

Answer 31

location

Question 32

what are 3 factors to consider that are related to L1 & L2 abilities post stroke?

Answer 32

1. amount of input from each language post stroke/during rehab.
2. amount of language spoken post stroke/rehab
3. emotions tied to each language

Question 33

interference

Answer 33

difficulties in L1 can affect L2

Question 34

word finding difficulties will usually appear in ____ languages.

Answer 34

both

Question 35

generalization

Answer 35

progress in one language, spreads to the new language