Comprehension and production of movement-derived sentences by Russian speakers with agrammatic aphasia  

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Friedmann, Naama

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Neurolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 23 no. 1 (2010), page 44–65.
Topik: Agrammatism Aphasia Russian Wh-movement Verb movement Morphology
Fulltext: Friedmann_Naama.pdf (540.67KB)

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This study explored the way Russian speakers with agrammatism understand and repeatmovement-derived sentences, and examined whether they use morpho-syntactic cues to assist comprehension. The comprehension of three Russian-speaking individuals with agrammatismwas tested, and their performancewas compared to 15 matched control participants. In addition, the repetition ability of one of the participants was assessed. The study included topicalization structures, relative clauses, and SVO sentences. The individuals with agrammatism performed at chance level on topicalization structures and object relative clauses, whereas their comprehension of SVO sentences and subject relatives was significantly better and above chance. Their comprehension of topicalization structures was poor although all sentences included morphological cues of case marking on the topicalized object and on the subject. Case and gender morphologyon the relative pronoun did not lead to better comprehension of object relative clauses compared to relative clauses in which gender inflection could not be used as a cue for interpretation. The repetition task indicated a considerable difficulty in repetition of sentences that include syntacticmovement to high nodes of the syntactic tree.

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