[Catalan version of Barcelona Test's verbal subtests].
Test Barcelona. Bilingüismo catalán-castellano. Adaptación lingüística de instrumentos neuropsicológicos.


OBJECTIVE
The present paper develops the Catalan version of the language subtests of the Barcelona Test (Peña-Casanova,1986) the original version of which was published in Spanish.


METHODS
To reach the Catalan version of the test it has been necessary to analyse the psycholinguistic variables of every item to then establish linguistically equivalent correlations.


RESULTS
There are some subtests for which no modifications have been needed. Nevertheless, and because of some psycholinguistic features of Catalan (Catalan's spelling is not completely free of ambiguity) some subtests have suffered substantial modifications. The following paper presents the justification of every modification based on the features of the Catalan language and also based on the original goals of the test. An appendix contains the final version of the Catalan adaptation for the language subtests of the Barcelona Test.


CONCLUSIONS
The present paper represents an advance in the assessment of neurological patients with language disfunctions. It will permit an appropiate assessment for the Spanish-Catalan bilingual patients.
Lluent Vallet
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Peña-Casanova
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Böhm
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D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008037:Linguistics; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013030:Spain
Versión catalana de los subtests verbales del Test Barcelona.