If you want a lot more information about stroke and linguistics, I highly recommend the book &quot;One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir&quot; It&#x27;s about an older married couple, both wordsmiths by trades (linguistics professors? I can&#x27;t remember). The husband has a stroke leaving him with a single word vocabulary.<p>It documents what they did in his recovery process as well as mentions the various types of language impairments that can come with stroke. It&#x27;s a great book - touching and educational.<p>IIRC, the book mentions that strokes affect single native language, dual native languages, and post childhood acquired languages differently. And that if you want to be able to communicate after a stroke you best bet is to learn another language. Though it&#x27;s been several years since I&#x27;ve read the book.