The effect of instrumentality and verb-noun name relation on verb retrieval in bilingual Greek-English anomic aphasic individuals

The effect of instrumentality and verb-noun name relation has been studied in a group of late bilingual, Greek-English speaking individuals with anomic aphasia, who had previously shown a greater verb than noun impairment in a picture naming task. The results revealed a facilitatory effect of instrumentality in both languages. However, there was no effect of verb-noun name relation in Greek, and a negative effect of verb-noun name relation was observed in English. The findings showed that lemma retrieval was intact in this group of bilingual individuals whose main problem seemed to arise during the retrieval of the phonological representation of the target word