Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Linguistics”
2014 Edition
Differences in Word Usage Patterns between 'Well-Recovered' Aphasic Patients and Control Subjects on a Picture Description Task
Daniela Ganelin
Linguistics Medicine
Each year, nearly 800,000 people in the US suffer strokes. Of these, about 38%, or 300,000, experience some degree of aphasia, or loss of linguistic abilities … Regardless of symptoms, many aphasic patients show marked improvement over time, with some studies reporting up to 40% of patients recovering completely within a year of the stroke … In this project, I analyzed the differences in word use between well-recovered aphasic patients (those that perform well on the Western Aphasia Battery) and normal control subjects on a discourse task.
2008 Edition
Do Languages with Grammatical Gender Promote Sexist Attitudes?
Ben Wasserman
Linguistics Social Science
Both French and Spanish have masculine v. feminine grammatical gender, while English does not have grammatical gender. For example, the phrase ’the table’ in English has the gender-neutral ’the’ preceding the word ’table’, while in French and Spanish, the feminine article ’la’ precedes both ‘mesa’ in Spanish and ’table’ in French . . . These grammatical differences between the languages led me to wonder whether there is a difference in [gender] attitudes among countries were Spanish, French, and English are predominantly spoken (Spain, France, US).