Speech Disturbances of Mother Tongue of The Right-Hemisphere-Damaged Polyglot

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  • Seki Keiko
    Mitaka Research Institute of Cognitive Dysfunction.

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  • 右大脳半球損傷 Polyglot の母語発話障害

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<p>  As the globalization of Japanese society proceeds, the number of the brain-damaged polyglots with aphasia is increasing. Researchers in this field should be interested in aphasic status of such polyglots and their recovery. This might be the main background of the symposium of the 45th Annual Academic Meeting of Higher Brain Function Research.<br>  The author (hereafter, I) , the right-brain-damaged polyglot of three languages (English, Spanish, and Japanese) and a neuropsychologist as well, happened to be nominated as a speaker at the Symposium. My self-estimation in my acute stage indicated that I had almost no problem in Spanish but I had difficulty in making long and complicated sentences in both Japanese and English. I think my ability in speaking these two languages have almost improved.<br>  I felt uncomfortable with the offer, since I noticed that my ability to speak each language was too poor to express me as a polyglot. The other problems I noticed were that I was not the left but the right-hemisphere-damaged and, also constitutional left-handed. Eventually, I accepted the nomination to confirm 1) whether or not my speech disturbance was due to aphasia, and 2) the effective factor for the recovery in polyglots.<br>  The results revealed that my speech disturbance could be treated as aphasia, and that the right-hemisphere-lesion and the left-handedness are the possible factors for recovery.</p>

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