| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Aphasia occurs from damage to the language related area of the left hemisphere of the brain. Aphasics have a variety of language difficulties including sentence production and word finding. We examined verb inflection which plays a key role in sentence production. Japanese verbs have two types of inflectional changes, Type I and II, each of which has inherent word final three phonemes. Since some of Type I verbs have the same word final phoneme sequences as those of Type II, their inflectional changes cannot be determined by their word endings. Participants responded slower and made much errors in inflecting those with inconsistent endings.
As for aphasia we found difficulty in comprehending sentences including intransitive verbs with transitive counterparts sharing identical stems (e.g., sim-a-ru/sim-e-ru [close)], since those verbs are phonologically confusing and intransitive sentences have syntactically complex structures.
We also examined factors facilitating object-naming.
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