Verb Movement in Acquisition and Aphasia: Same Problem, Different Solutions—Evidence from Dutch  

Oleh:

Zuckerman, Shalom ; Bastiaanse, Roelien ; Zonneveld, Ron van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 77 no. 3 (2001), page 449-458.
Topik: agrammatism; language acquisition; syntax; verb movement; Dutch
Fulltext: 77_03_Zuckerman.pdf (53.13KB)

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This paper focuses on verb movement in agrammatism and child language. We present data from a sentence completion experiment with 6 Dutch agrammatic aphasics and 21 Dutchspeaking children. The experiment compares completion of matrix clauses (which require verb movement) and embedded clauses (where such movement is not required) in these two populations. The results reveal a clear asymmetry: Both agrammatics and children do very well with embedded clauses but fail in 50% with the matrix clauses. It is concluded that the problem which both populations are facing is one of verb movement rather than verb inflection. An error analysis of the responses reveals that, although both agrammatics and children try to avoid movement, they apply different strategies to achieve this goal.

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