زبان پریشی به آفریقایی: یک تجزیه و تحلیل مقدماتی

The language of a group of mildly impaired aphasic subjects speaking Cape Afrikaans in South Africa was compared with a group of matched controls. A narrative task was used to elicit samples and analysis methods included productivity, syntax and coherence measures, as well as ethnic, stylistic and pragmatic variables. The strongly bilingual tradition of this group became apparent in the results. Syntactic and productivity measures differentiated the groups to some extent, particularly in relation to the mechanism of verb movement. More marked differences were noted in aspects of coherence. Features such as code-switching, word order changes and stylistic intensification are interpreted as providing a robust compensatory and scaffolding structure for some of the primary aphasic deficits in this sample.