Patterns of Kanji vs. Kana or Hangul deficits in a Japanese-Korean bilingual aphasic patient: A case report.

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  • Kijima Rieko
    Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Yoshino Mariko
    Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Yokohama Rehabilitation Center
  • Kawamura Mitsuru
    Department of Neurology, Showa University School of Medicine
  • Kawachi Juro
    Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Hakuno Akira
    Yokohama Rehabilitation Center

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  • 日本語・韓国語二言語使用者失語症例の検討　漢字・仮名，漢字・ハングルの対比を中心に

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This study reports a Japanese-Korean bilingual aphasic patient, focusing on Kanji vs. Kana deficits in Japanese and corresponding Kanji vs. Hangul deficits in Korean. The subject was a 65-year-old right-handed man who suffered from right hemiparesis and severe aphasia caused by a cerebral infarction. He premorbidly acquired and used both the languages equally well in speech as well as in writing. We administered four language tests : the Standard Language Test of Aphasia, spoken and written production test, auditory comprehension test, and reading comprehension test. The subject showed similar performances in the two languages on all the tests. In addition, the same deficit patterns were found in the two types of characters in both the languages ; processing Kanji was relatively preserved in both Japanese and Korean, whereas processing Kana and Hangul was severely impaired. It is suggested that these results reflect the same degree of premorbid mastery of both the languages and the similarity between Japanese and Korean in respect to some aspects of language structures, which would have contributed to the similar organization of the two languages in his brain.

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  • Higher Brain Function Research

    Higher Brain Function Research 17 (1), 1-9, 1997

    Japanese Society of Aphasiology (Renamed as Japan Society for Higher Brain Function)

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