Title
Use Of The Bat With A Cantonese-Putonghua Speaker With Aphasia
Keywords
aphasia; Bilingual Aphasia Test; language assessment; multilingualism
Abstract
The aim of this article is to illustrate the use of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) with a Cantonese-Putonghua speaker. We describe G, who is a relatively young Chinese bilingual speaker with aphasia. G's communication abilities in his L2, Putonghua, were impaired following brain damage. This impairment caused specific difficulties in communication with his wife, a native Putonghua speaker, and was thus a priority for investigation. Given a paucity of standardised tests of aphasia in Putonghua, our goal was to use the BAT to assess G's impairments in his L2. Results showed that G's performance on the BAT subtests measuring word and sentence comprehension and production was impaired. His pattern of performance on the BAT allowed us to generate hypotheses about his higher-level language impairments in Putonghua, which were subsequently found to be impaired. We argue that the BAT is able to capture the primary language impairments in Chinese-speaking patients with aphasia when Putonghua is the second language. We also suggest some modifications to the BAT for testing Chinese-speaking patients with bilingual aphasia. © 2011 Informa UK, Ltd.
Publication Date
6-1-2011
Publication Title
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
Volume
25
Issue
6-7
Number of Pages
540-552
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2011.570851
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
79959240216 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79959240216
STARS Citation
Kong, Anthony Pak Hin and Weekes, Brendan Stuart, "Use Of The Bat With A Cantonese-Putonghua Speaker With Aphasia" (2011). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 2405.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/2405