Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers Communication Disorders Across Languages Series Editors:Dr Nicole Müller and Dr Martin Ball,University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA While the majority of work in communication disorders has focused on English, there has been a growing trend in recent years for the publication of information on languages other than English. However, much of this is scattered through a large number of journals in the field of speech pathology/communication disorders, and therefore, not always readily available to the practioner, researcher and student. It is the aim of this series to bring together into book form surveys of existing studies on specific languages, together with new materials for the language(s) in question. We also envisage a series of companion volumes dedicated to issues related to the crosslinguistic study of communication disorders. The series will not include English (as so much work is readily available), but will cover a wide number of other languages (usually separately, though sometimes two or more similar languages may be grouped together where warranted by the amount of published work currently available). We envisage being able to solicit volumes on languages such as Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Thai, North Indian languages in the UK context, Celtic languages, Arabic and Hebrew among others. Other Books of Interest Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development Roger Barnard and Ted Glynn (eds) Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression and Representation Aneta Pavlenko (ed.) Culture-Specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy Masahiko Minami Developing in Two Languages: Korean Children in America Sarah J. Shin Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni Language Acquisition: The Age Factor (2nd ed) David Singleton and Lisa Ryan Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child Jenny Froude Phonological Development in Specific Contexts: Studies of Chinese-Speaking Children Zhu Hua Phonological Development and Disorders in Children: A Multilingual Perspective Zhu Hua and Barbara Dodd (eds) Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood Paddy Ladd For more details of these or any other of our publications, please contact: Multilingual Matters, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, BS21 7HH, England http://www.multilingual-matters.com Communication Disorders Across Languages Series Editors: Nicole Müller and Martin Ball Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers Theoretical, Research and Clinical Aspects Edited by José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson and Loraine K. Obler MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon • Buffalo (cid:127) Toronto Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Communication Disorders in Spanish Speakers: Theoretical, Research and Clinical Aspects/Edited by José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson and Loraine K. Obler. Communication Disorders Across Languages Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Communicative disorders–Treatment–United States. 2. Communicative disorders in children–Treatment–United States. 3. Bilingualism–United States. 4. Bilingualism in children–United States. 5. English language–Acquisition. 6. Spanish language–Acquisition. 7. Hispanic Americans–Language. 8. Hispanic American children–Language. 9. Bilingualism–Physiological aspects. I. Centeno, José G. II. Anderson, Raquel Teresa. III. Obler, Loraine K. IV. Series. [DNLM: 1. Communication Disorders–ethnology–United States. 2. Hispanic Americans–United States. 3. Multilingualism–United States. WL 340.2 C73378 2007] RC423.C6427 2007 362.196' 855–dc22 2007006872 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-85359-972-9 (hbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-85359-971-2 (pbk) Multilingual Matters Ltd UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon BS21 7HH. USA: UTP, 2250 Military Road, Tonawanda, NY 14150, USA. Canada: UTP, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8, Canada. Copyright © 2007 José G. Centeno, Raquel T. Anderson, Loraine K. Obler and the authors of individual chapters. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. The policy of Multilingual Matters/Channel View Publications is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products, made from wood grown in sustainable forests. In the manufacturing process of our books, and to further support our policy, preference is given to printers that have FSC and PEFC Chain of Custody certification. The FSC and/or PEFC logos will appear on those books where full certification has been granted to the printer concerned. Typeset by Datapage Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain by the Cromwell Press Ltd. Contents Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction Jose´G. Centeno, Loraine K. Obler, and Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Part 1: Preliminary Considerations 1 Contrastive Analysis between Spanish and English Raquel T. Anderson and Jose´G. Centeno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 2 English Language Learners: Literacy and Biliteracy Considerations Hortencia Kayser and Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 3 Bilingual Development and Communication: Implications for Clinical Language Studies Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 4 Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism Martin R. Gitterman and Hia Datta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 5 Sociocultural, Societal, and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism: Variables, Interactions, and Therapeutic Implications in Speech-Language Pathology Alizah Z. Brozgold and Jose´G. Centeno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 6 Cross-linguistic Research: The Convergence of Monolingual and Bilingual Data Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 7 The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language Disorders among Spanish Speakers Brendan Stuart Weekes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 8 Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical Communication Research with Hispanic Populations Jose´G. Centeno and Willard Gingerich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Part 2: Research in Children: Conceptual, Methodological, Empirical, and Clinical Considerations 9 Exploring the Grammar of Spanish-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment Raquel T. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 v vi CommunicationDisordersinSpanishSpeakers 10 Language Elicitation and Analysis as a Research and Clinical Tool for Latino Children Marı´a Adelaida Restrepo and Anny Patricia Castilla. . . . . . . . . . . .127 11 Utterance Length Measures for Spanish-speaking Toddlers: The Morpheme versus Word Issue Revisited Donna Jackson-Maldonado and Barbara T. Conboy . . . . . . . . . . . . .142 12 Lexical Skills in Young Children Learning a Second Language: Methods, Results, and Clinical Applications Kathryn Kohnert and Pui Fong Kan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156 13 Measuring Phonological Skills in Bilingual Children: Methodology and Clinical Applications Brian A. Goldstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169 Part 3: Research in Adults: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Implications 14 Prepositional Processing in Spanish Speakers with Aphasia: The Role of Semantic Value and Amount of Contextual Information Belinda A. Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 15 Cohesion in the Conversational Samples of Broca’s Aphasic Individuals: Theoretical and Clinical Implications Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198 16 Language Switching in the Context of Spanish(cid:1)English Bilingual Aphasia Ana Ine´s Ansaldo and Karine Marcotte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214 17 Description and Detection of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Spanish I. Carolina Iribarren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231 18 Cross-linguistic Aspects of Dyslexia in Spanish(cid:1)English Bilinguals Elizabeth Ijalba and Loraine K. Obler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243 19 Neuropsychological Profile of Adult Illiterates and the Development and Application of a Neuropsychological Program for Learning to Read Feggy Ostrosky-Solı´s, Azucena Lozano, Maura J. Ramı´rez, and Alfredo Ardila. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256 20 Phonetic Descriptions of Speech Production in Bilingual Speakers: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Considerations Fredericka Bell-Berti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .276 Epilogue Loraine K. Obler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297 Contributors Raquel T. Anderson, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Ana Ine´s Ansaldo, Ph.D., Faculte´ de Me´decine, Universite´ de Montre´al, Que´bec, Canada Alfredo Ardila, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA Fredericka Bell-Berti, Ph.D., Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, USA Alizah Z. Brozgold, Ph.D., Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY, USA Anny Patricia Castilla, ABD, Department of Speech-Language Patho- logy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Jose´ G. Centeno, Ph.D., Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, USA Barbara T. Conboy, Ph.D., Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Hia Datta, M.S., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Willard Gingerich, Ph.D., Office of the Provost, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, USA Martin Gitterman, Ph.D., Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Lehman College, and Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, The GraduateCenter, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Brian Goldstein, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Elizabeth Ijalba, M.Phil., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNewYork,New York,NY,USA I.CarolinaIribarren,Ph.D.,PostgradoenLingu¨´ısticaAplicada,Universi- dad Simo´n Bol´ıvar, Caracas, DF, Venezuela vii viii Contributors DonnaJackson-Maldonado,Ph.D.,UniversidadAuto´nomadeQuere´taro, Quere´taro,Me´xico PuiFongKan,M.A.,DepartmentofSpeech-Language-HearingSciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Hortencia Kayser, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA Kathryn Kohnert, Ph.D., Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Azucena Lozano, Lic., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico Karine Marcotte, M.S., Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Ge´riatrie de Montre´al, Universite´ de Montre´al, Que´bec, Canada Loraine K. Obler, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, TheGraduateCenter,CityUniversityofNew York,NewYork,NY,USA Feggy Ostrosky-Solı´s, Ph.D., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico Lourdes G. Pietrosemoli, Ph.D., Centro de Investigacio´n y Atencio´n Lingu¨´ıstica, Universidad de Los Andes, Me´rida, Venezuela Maura J. Ramı´rez, Lic., Facultad de Psicolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Me´xico, DF, Me´xico M. Adelaida Restrepo, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA BelindaA.Reyes,Ph.D.,DepartmentofCommunicationDisorders,Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, USA BrendanWeekes,Ph.D.,CPsychol,DepartmentofPsychology,Schoolof Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Acknowledgments Publication of this volume would not have been possible without the enormousamount of patience and careful work from a group of people. We are indebted to all of our contributors who supported this project sinceitsplanningstagesandthroughoutitsvariousevolutionaryphases. OurdeepestthankstotheenergeticandsupportiveMultilingualMatters family, starting with Mike Grover, former head publisher and currently enjoying his semi-retirement, who, in conjunction with his editorial advisors,NicoleMu¨llerandMartinBall,welcomedourproposal.Thanks Nicole for the long hours reading the manuscripts and all of your challenging comments. Marjukka and Tommy Grover answered our many questions and Marjukka patiently led us through the initial developmental processes before Ken Hall guided the production phases withmeticulouscareandencouragingemails,andKathrynKingshaped the wide marketing efforts. Jose´ thanks Jeffrey Fagen, his College Dean, andhiscolleaguesonthefacultyforallowinghimtheteachingreduction to give attention to this volume and his many other projects. Raquel thankshercolleaguesintheDepartmentofSpeechandHearingSciences, especially Karen Forrest and Laura Murray for their continued support and their belief that working with diverse populations is a necessary endeavorforourfield.She alsothanksherfamilyfortolerating herlong daysworkingonthisbook.LorainethanksJose´ andRaquelforengaging herinworkingonthisbook,andforallthethoughtful,carefulworkthey haveputinonit.WeallthankBonnieLorenzenatIndianaUniversityfor assisting with the author index. ix