The Bilingual Brain: Bilingual Aphasia

206 FRANCO FABBRO
TABLE 1
Linguistic Levels (Percentages of Correct Answers)
Morphol-
Phonology ogy Syntax Lexicon Semantics Total
Aphasic
Subjects S A Edu TL Ls Ass Sy L1 L2 L1 L2 L1 L2 L1 L2 L1 L2 L1 L2
1 (KB) F 15 8 I FT 96 TM 95 95 65 69 88 93 91 95 93 87 86 88
2 (CB) F 71 5 I BG 4 B 81 76 52 43 51 55 61 66 42 55 57 59
3 (EM) M 56 11 H BG 28 B 79 82 13 69 50 56 65 68 47 42 51 63
4 (OR) M 63 5 I BG-I 3 W-B 75 78 43 43 53 50 63 68 50 71 57 62
5 (PB) M 39 18 Tu Th 3 A-B 96 95 91 78 75 77 90 92 82 92 87 86
6 (DC) M 50 13 H BG 1 B 82 85 56 73 58 57 73 68 76 50 69 67
7 (AT) F 77 5 I T 1 B 71 67 26 17 58 50 61 60 53 55 54 50
8 (DD) M 48 13 I FT 3 B 51 62 0 68 66 56 66 72 57 77 47 66
9 (FV) M 67 5 I BG 2 W-A 81 73 52 21 58 59 67 69 60 60 64 56
10 (ATM) M 62 5 I Ins 1 B-A 95 82 78 86 95 90 97 92 96 95 92 89
11 (OM) M 72 8 I T 1 G 76 76 65 65 69 70 74 74 74 74 71 72
12 (AS) M 51 19 I BG 7 B 87 79 78 78 78 71 81 81 77 77 80 77
13 (CM) F 25 13 H PT 13 A 93 100 95 65 89 91 91 87 100 95 94 87
14 (LM) F 67 5 Tu Th 1 TM 95 95 86 56 91 80 93 88 100 82 93 80**
15 (LT) F 54 5 I BG 1 A 89 89 86 65 86 78 89 88 88 73 88 78**
16 (LV) M 54 8 I P 4 G 61 39 56 17 44 39 59 51 62 55 56 40***
17 (AM) M 48 17 H BG-FT 1 G 48 45 13 4 55 51 55 53 53 53 45 41**
18 (RT) M 53 5 I PT 24 TS 67 89 17 17 50 54 67 76 73 87 55 64**
19 (VD) F 78 8 I PT 1 W 59 62 30 60 60 56 68 72 65 77 56 65**
20 (AL) M 77 5 I F 1 G 48 61 0 39 36 38 30 49 12 26 25 42*
Note. S sex; A age; Edu years of education; TL type of lesion (tumor, infarction, hemorrhage); LS lesion site (F: frontal lobe; T: temporal lobe;
P: parietal lobe; BG: basal ganglia; Th: thalamus; Ins: insula); Ass interval between the onset of the lesion and language assessment; Aphasic Syndrome (B:
Broca’s aphasia; W: Wernicke’s aphasia; G: global aphasia; A: anomic aphasia; TM: transcortical motor aphasia; TS: Transcortical Sensory Aphasia). Bold entries
are related to the language that showed a significantly better recovery.
* p 0.7.
** p .05.
*** p .01.