In this first lecture I aim to give an introduction with respect to the major advances in neurolinguistic research in pathological populations over the past decades. Building on research in a series of speech and language disorders, we will discover the major neurological pinpoints of both speech and language.
Importantly, we will also go into how ageing can impact specific linguistic competences (e.g. naming abilities, use of figurative speech), and what is potentially the cause for these sometimes peculiar alterations or regressions in language use.