Abstract
The theoretical part provides information This poster is a part of a broader research dealing with aphasia and Alzheimer's disease, describing linguistic specifics of aphasia symptoms (circulation, perseveration, semantic and phonemic paraphasias, agramatism). In the context of Alzheimer's disease, word retrieval difficulties are particularly discussed.
Attention is also paid to the relationship between recursive sentence embedding and theory-of-mind (ToM) Inference. Although patients with AD have not been diagnosed with aphasia, their speech disorders are in many ways the same as those of patients with aphasia.
Patients who suffer from one of these disorders exhibit a wide range of language disorders, and the two disorders overlap in their symptoms. As the first insight into this area in Czech, 6 speakers of Czech with diagnosed aphasia (2 Broca, 2 Wernicke, 2 transcortical-motor) is analysed.
As a stimulus, we usedthe cartoon Shaun the Sheep in duration 24 minutes, and our participants' task was to retell the story and answerquestions such as "What are the individual characters in this film like?" or "What does a particular part of the film symbolise?" etc. Studies have shown that patients who suffer from Broca's aphasia are more likely to use compensatory strategies using ToM to avoid syntactically more complex sentences , thus, we try to find similar strategies in Czech speakers with different types of aphasia.
We also claim that gestures can be used as a compensatory strategy as well.