Spontaneous translation and language mixing in a polyglot aphasic.
The literature on language mixing in polyglot aphasics is reviewed and a case report of a patient with spontaneous translation is presented. A microgenetic model of language processing provides an interpretive framework for language mixing and spontaneous translation as symptoms of polyglot aphasia. It is suggested that language mixing reflects a deficit at the linguistic level while spontaneous translation reflects a deficit at the prelinguistic level of language processing. A hypothesis about the organization of multiple languages in a single speaker is proposed.
D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014175:Translating