Something I and my students find interesting is the rare case of aphasia in polyglots (people who are multilingual). I have gone back to some of the earlier writings on aphasia as cited in Hecaen and Albert (1976), and find it fascinating that someone who is multilingual may lose their "mother tongue" and not any acquired language(s), or they may lose both primary and acquired languages, or simply lose the acquired language(s). Recovery is similarly idiosyncratic; however parallel loss and recovery are most likely. It suggests localization of native language vs. acquired language. I've worked a great deal with people with aphasia and have never had the opportunity to observe this because of its rarity, but I keep hoping...
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