Syntax and inflectional morphology in Aphasia: Quantitative aspects of Wernicke speakers' narratives

Aphasic language deficits are seen as gradient deviations from the nonpathological norms, and it has been claimed that persons suffering from posterior (Wernicke's) aphasia show little, if any syntactic aberrations. The present quantitative analysis of pathological syntactic patterns in Wernick...

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Published inJournal of quantitative linguistics Vol. 4; no. 1-3; pp. 181 - 189
Main Authors Niemi, Jussi, Laine, Matti
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis Group 01.12.1997
Subjects
Agrammatism
Brocas Aphasia
Case Marking
Ellipsis
Error Analysis
Finnish
Information Processing
Lexicon
Mean Length of Utterance
Semantic Processing
Statistical Analysis
Syntactic Processing
Wernickes Aphasia
Word Order
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ISSN0929-6174
1744-5035
DOI10.1080/09296179708590094

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Summary:Aphasic language deficits are seen as gradient deviations from the nonpathological norms, and it has been claimed that persons suffering from posterior (Wernicke's) aphasia show little, if any syntactic aberrations. The present quantitative analysis of pathological syntactic patterns in Wernicke's aphasia deals with Finnish, a grammatically free word-order language, but with a canonical SVO order. In contrast to the preservation of syntax hypothesis, the present persons with posterior aphasia show decreased syntactic complexity, operation-alised through various structures, in their narratives.
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ISSN:0929-6174
1744-5035
DOI:10.1080/09296179708590094