Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy

• Published in: Brain and language Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 188 - 199
• Main Authors: Burchert, Frank, Swoboda-Moll, Maria, Bleser, Ria De
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.08.2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Acoustic Stimulation; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Agrammatism; Agreement; Aphasia; Aphasia, Broca - physiopathology; Biological and medical sciences; Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes; Female; Functional categories; German; Germany; Humans; Linguistic Theory; Linguistics; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Photic Stimulation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reading; Tense; Tree pruning; Germany; Tense; Agreement; Tree pruning; Functional categories; Agrammatism; Aphasia; German; Human; Nervous system diseases; Language disorder; Grammatical category; Cerebral disorder; Communication disorder; Central nervous system disease; Dissociation; Neurological disorder

The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether German agrammatic production data are compatible with the Tree-Pruning-Hypothesis (TPH; Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997). The theory predicts unidirectional patterns of dissociation in agrammatic production data with respect to Tense and Agree...