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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

  • Linguistic variation research shows mainstream speakers know vernacular features.
  • Comprehension of vernacular features in people with aphasia (PWA) is understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how PWA comprehend the vernacular feature negative concord (NC).
  • To investigate PWA's sensitivity to social and linguistic information in NC sentences.

Main Methods:

  • A pilot study involved 12 chronic-stage PWA rating sentences with NC.
  • Participants assessed sentence naturalness and felicity.
  • Ordinal regression analyzed rating data.

Main Results:

  • PWA rated NC sentences as unacceptable but felicitous.
  • This pattern mirrors findings in neurologically intact adults.

Conclusions:

  • PWA demonstrate sensitivity to social and linguistic cues similar to intact speakers.
  • Findings support integrating vernacular features into PWA research, assessment, and treatment.