Mental representation of prepositional compounds: Evidence from Italian agrammatic patients  

Oleh:

Mondini, Sara ; Luzzatti, Claudio ; Saletta, Paola ; Allamano, Nadia ; Semenza, Carlo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 94 no. 2 (2005), page 178-187.
Topik: Aphasia; Compounds; Prepositions; Dual route
Fulltext: 94_02_Mondini.pdf (183.03KB)

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The processing of Prepositional compounds (typical Neo-latin noun–noun modifications where a head noun is modified by a prepositional phrase, e.g., mulino a vento, windmill) was preliminarily studied with a group of six agrammatic aphasic patients, and, in more detail, with a further agrammatic patient (MB). Omission was the most frequent error type in naming, whereas in the other tasks (repetition, reading, writing, and completion) errors were mostly substitutions of the target preposition. This happened even with fully lexicalized compound forms, i.e., those forms where the linking preposition is syntactically and semantically opaque. These findings are interpreted in terms of a dual-route theory of lexical access to morphologically complex words.

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