Pronoun processing in Broca's aphasia: Discourse-syntax effects in ambiguous anaphora resolution

• Published in: Aphasiology Vol. 27; no. 11; pp. 1381 - 1407
• Main Authors: Peristeri, E., Tsimpli, I. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.11.2013
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Ambiguous pronouns; Anaphora; Broca's aphasia; Brocas Aphasia; Clitics; Language Processing; Pronouns; Syntactic Processing; Syntax Discourse Relationship; Syntax-discourse interface

Background: The interpretation of ambiguous subject pronouns in a null subject language, like Greek, requires that one possesses grammatical knowledge of the two subject pronominal forms, i.e., null and overt, and that discourse constraints regulating the distribution of the two pronouns in context...