The systematic misrepresentation of bilingual-crossed aphasia data and its consequences |
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Authors: | D Solin |
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Affiliation: | Department of Linguistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. |
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Abstract: | The evidence from bilingual-crossed aphasia which has been used to support a bilingualism-right hemisphere effect for language representation and/or processing is critically reevaluated. Data gathered by the case survey method are shown to have been misrepresented in the literature. The argument based on a single group study of right-lesioned subjects is shown to rest upon a fundamental misinterpretation of those data. The consequences of such misrepresentation and misinterpretation as reflected in recent research are discussed. |
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