Elicitation of specific syntactic structures in primary progressive aphasia  

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DeLeon, Jessica ; Gesierich, Benno ; Besbris, Max ; Ogar, Jennifer ; Henry, Maya L. ; Miller, Bruce L. ; Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa ; Wilson, Stephen M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 123 no. 3 (2012), page 183-190.
Topik: Syntax; Production; Primary progressive aphasia; Voxel-based morphometry
Fulltext: 123_03_DeLeon.pdf (525.58KB)

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Many patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) are impaired in syntactic production. Because most previous studies of expressive syntax in PPA have relied on quantitative analysis of connected speech samples, which is a relatively unconstrained task, it is not well understood which specific syntactic structures are most challenging for these patients. We used an elicited syntactic production task to identify which syntactic structures pose difficulties for 31 patients with three variants of PPA: non-fluent/ agrammatic, semantic and logopenic. Neurodegenerative and healthy age-matched participants were included as controls. As expected, non-fluent/agrammatic patients made the most syntactic errors. The structures that resulted in the most errors were constructions involving third person singular present agreement, and constructions involving embedded clauses. Deficits on this elicited production task were associated with atrophy of the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus.

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