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- The study examines the naming abilities of a proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual with Primary Progressive Aphasia, highlighting a specific deficit in naming verbs compared to nouns.
- This deficit was consistent in both oral and written tasks across both languages, suggesting damage at the lexical level.
- Interestingly, while performance in both languages was similar, the second language showed greater impairment, indicating shared organizational principles in bilingual cortical processing, particularly related to grammatical classes.
Article Abstract
We report the naming performance of an early and highly proficient Spanish-Catalan bilingual (JPG) suffering from Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA). JPG's performance revealed a grammatical category-specific deficit, with worse performance in naming verbs than nouns. This dissociation was present in oral and written naming and in his two languages, and it seems to stem from damage to, at least, the lexical level. Despite the fact that JPG's performance was qualitatively very similar across languages, his second language seemed to be more affected than his first language. These results indicate that the cortical organization of the two languages of highly proficient bilinguals follow similar organizational principles, one of this principles being grammatical class.
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