To some Indigenous people recovering language is like recovering self.
The current participants were considered to exhibit high levels of residual or recovered language abilities, with current classifications of either mild residual aphasia or no residual aphasia on the WAB [ 41].
By basing Middle Earth on the shards of recovered languages and stories, he rooted it in something very like a collective preconscious.
If a lady has a stroke on the language side of the brain she'll often recover speech.
Other writers, including Shafak, seek to recover a language lost in the 1928 alphabet and language revolution which, in its drive to "purify" Ottoman Turkish of Persian and Arabic words - perhaps two-thirds of its vocabulary - sunders young Turkish readers from their own literary heritage.
"We're trying to capture a story in a limited amount of time, and the linguists are trying to recover a language before it dies, which might even happen while we are there," Mr. Miller said.
In the late seventies, some Nez Perce elders approached Axtell--who was one of a dwindling number who could still speak the Nez Perce language, and, as a veteran of the Second World War, was a man of stature--to help save and recover their language and the Seven Drum religion.
Regardless of language membership, moreover, the lexical representations of the two languages would be governed by variables such as grammatical class and semantic category; thus, this approach does not preclude the possibility that a bilingual aphasic patient might selectively recover one language while the other is lost (see [ 7, 8]).
There have been additional reports of right-handed patients who had recovered some language function after a left hemisphere aphasic stroke, but who then deteriorated further after a second stroke affecting the right hemisphere (Barlow, 1877; Gowers, 1887; Lee et al., 1984; Basso et al., 1989; Cappa and Vallar, 1992; Turkeltaub et al., 2012).
Today, against towering odds and extreme social pressures, many continue the hard work of rebuilding their communities, recovering their languages and reconnecting to ancient and powerful ways of being, often, ironically, through the creative use of the very parish records that Serra inscribed as a means of documenting their baptism.
