Contributors xxvi preface xxix CORINE ASTESANO AND MELANIE JUCLA Acknowledgements xxxii Foreword xxxiii DAVID N.CAPLAN Introduction 1 1 Neuropsycholinguistics according to Jean-Luc Nespoulous 3 PART 1 Linguistic mechanisms and the architecture of language 13 2 Phonological markedness,acquisition and language pathology:What is left of the Jakobsonian legacy? 15 3 Function versus regions in spatial language:A fundamental distinction 31 4 From language acquisition to language pathology:Cross-linguistic perspectives 46 5 Semantic subcategories of nouns and verbs:A neurolinguistic review on healthy adults and patients with Alzheimer’s disease 61 PART 2 The relationship between language and other cognitive processes 75 6 Phonological similarity can also impair transcoding:A study in French 77 7 Influence of musical expertise on the perception of pitch,duration and intensity variations in speech and harmonic sounds 88 8 Gestures and multimodal communication:Developmental and pathological aspects 103 9 Cognitive processes underlying pragmatic impairments after a right-hemisphere lesion 117 PART 3 Assessment of speech & language disabilities and compensatory mechanisms 129 10 Describing and interpreting variability in agrammatic speech production 131 11 Disability,repair strategies and communicative effectiveness at the phonic level:Evidence from a multiple-case study 144 12 Applying phonetic investigation methods to the assessment of dysphonia and dysarthria 166 13 Allying information and communications technology with (psycho)linguistic sciences to design alternative and augmentative communication systems for persons with speech and motor impairment 183 Appendix 6.1 199 Index 201
