摘要：This study was undertaken after intensive rehabilitation with a bilingual individual who recovered from severeaphasia. At the time of her injury she spoke both English and Mandarin Chinese. Bilingualism for this individualinvolved a tonal and non tonal language which is hypothesized to be beneficial in her recovery. Psycholinguisticresearch in bilingualism proposes that at the conceptual-semantic level these two languages may be overlapping butthat the lexical level representations are non-overlapping; this is particularly the case for Mandarin and English.Mandarin Chinese is a language that requires tonal changes to indicate meaningful differences in words. Althoughthe research is not unequivocal, lateralization of Mandarin Chinese is partially supported in the right hemisphere. Westudied the connectivity of language areas activated by Mandarin and English in a bilingual individual, CL, withaphasia. This individual’s language recovery was remarkable given her extensive LTFC damage. We hypothesizedthat language substrates that supported Mandarin and were undamaged in the right hemisphere helped to facilitateher recovery of English.
