Science of Aphasia 5 Cross Linguistic Aspects of Aphasia ...

with omission of functional materials and low scores in working memory tasks. This simptoms are normally
defined as agrammatic aphasia.
Subject Age Edu Post –
On set
Lesion
M.R. 42 18 2 Years FTP
Subject Age Edu Post -
on set
Lesion
C.D. 45 8 5 Years FTP
2. 2 Elicitation contexts
The task was introduced in a elicitation context inviting the subject to produce a question. It is like to create a
scenario of plausibile common life.
a. First context
In the elicitation task used in aphasia, subjects heard a sentence with a missing detail, signified by non-specific
words like “someone” or “something”, and were required to ask a question about the missing detail (see example
(1) ).
You think that your daughter comes back to school and she is telling you about her day.The point is that
she doesn’t tell you so many things and you want to know the missing details.
For example she said to you that someone kissed her and you want to know about this boy.
So you ask...
(1) Experimenter: Danny ate something. You want to ask me about this thing. So you ask….
B. Second Context
Target: ma dani axal?
What Danny ate?
(Friedmann,2002)
In the experiment for children the investigator tell a story to the child; this was the context for elicitation. At the
end of the story the investigator asked the child to ask at the puppet a detail of the story :
(2) Investigator:
“In that story, there was something the spaceman didn’t like.
Ask the snail What ”
(Thornton,1995)
In the task created for the patient Wh elements were inserted, like in children’s context.