NEUROLINGUISTIC STATUS AND LOCALIZATION OF LESION IN APHASIC PATIENTS WITH EXCLUSIVELY CONSONANT-VOWEL RECURRING UTTERANCES

Abstract

Eight patients are presented whose speech production consisted exclusively of one and the same recurring consonant-vowel (CV) syllable, similar to Broca's first patient Leborgne (‘Tan-tan’). Their neurolinguistic, aphasiological and localizational status was examined and compared with 32 patients with standard global aphasia and 15 with Broca's aphasia.