Verbal fluency – semantic and phonemic Cover Image

Fluența verbală (semantică și fonemică)
Verbal fluency – semantic and phonemic

Author(s): Carolina Bodea-Haţegan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Asociația Specialiștilor în Terapia Tulburărilor de Limbaj din România
Keywords: verbal fluency; semantic verbal fluency; phonemic verbal fluency; executive functioning; language development;

Summary/Abstract: This article defines verbal fluency, with both its ways: semantic verbal fluency and phonemic verbal fluency trying to answer to the fallowing question „Is Verbal fluency and indicator for linguistic or a cognitive development?”. In order to answer this question this article mentions lots of researches regarding all the area in which verbal fluency tests are used. Among these areas we can mention: linguistic area, neuropsychological area, psychiatric area. The practical aspect regrading verbal fluency is ensured through the proposed assessment and training tasks both for semantic and phonemic verbal fluency. The way Romanian psychological tests compress verbal fluency is another aspect approached in this article, in order to ensure for the reader, the possibility to have a global image about verbal fluency and its concert materializations.

  • Issue Year: IV/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 79-86
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English, Romanian