Question

The following language sample is used in an article by Buckingham and Kertesz (1976) as an example of neologistic jargon aphasia. The speaker is responding to the question "Who is running the store?": I don't know. Yes, the bick, uh, yes I would say that the mick daysis nosis or chpickters. Course, I have also missed on the carfter teck. Do you know what that is? I've , uh, taken to ingish. They have been toast sosilly. They'd have been put to myafa and made palis and, uh, myadakal senda you. That is me alordisdus. That makes anacronous senda. Analyze the excerpt above by carefully noting the kinds of mistakes made by the speaker. Are there errors in morphology? In grammar? What types of words are correct (or correctly produced) and what types are incorrect? After you have finished your analysis, respond to these two questions in the space below: 1. How would you (based on your analysis) describe the condition of neological jargon aphasia? Be sure to use details from the language sample in your description. 2. What part of the brain do you suspect this type of aphasia is associated with

Answer 1

First of all, jargon aphasia is always related to damage in the temporal lobe (particularly, in the Wernicke's area).

Now, given that the interviewed's speech presents nonwords like "bick", "chpickters" or "carfter", it is most likely that they were dealing with a neologistic aphasia, this is, no phonological relatedness to actual words that would reach the meaning intended by the speaker, but would resemble, at least phonetically, to others contained within the linguistic community.