On manifestations of aphasia in Catalan: a case study of Broca's aphasia

Peña-Casanova, Jordi; Diéguez-Vide, Faustino; Lluent, Raquel; Böhm, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0911-6044(01)00013-6

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“…The verb in Ibero-Romance non-fluent aphasia Peres (1979) studied the spontaneous speech of Portuguese individuals with aphasia. From the subset of four individuals with non-fluent aphasia, four omitted verb phrases, whereas only two omitted other types of phrases, in line with posterior suggestions that verb production can be selectively impaired (see Miera, 1996;Peña-Casanova, Diéguez-Vide, Lluent, & Böhm, 2001;and Almagro-Cardenete, 2002; for Catalan and Spanish).…”

Section: Verbal Morphology and Argument Structuresupporting

confidence: 74%

“…The latter were better produced than passives (37.5% vs. 67% errors) but worse than actives (24% errors). Contrary to this, Peña-Casanova et al (2001) reported data of one Catalan speaker with aphasia whose comprehension of passive sentences was better preserved than his comprehension of verb-subject-object (VSO) sentences (100% correct). In production, the patient replaced both passives and VSO constructions by the canonical SVO structure.…”

Section: Passive Sentencesmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Passive sentences are consistently found to be more impaired than actives in the languages under investigation (Bastiaanse et al, 2002;Benedet et al, 1998;Beretta et al, 2001;Gavarró & Dotti, 2014;Gavarró & Romeu, 2010;Juncos-Rabadán et al, 2009;Martínez-Ferreiro et al, 2014;Miera & Cuetos, 1998). The same holds for OVS and VSO structures (Miera, 1996;Miera & Cuetos, 1998;Peña-Casanova et al, 2001). No data are available for Portuguese as for canonicity effects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The production of verbs has been consistently found to be affected in non-fluent aphasia (Almagro-Cardenete, 2002;Miera, 1996;Peña-Casanova et al, 2001;Peres, 1979). Taken together, data on verbal morphology indicate no differences across conjugations (Diéguez-Vide, 1993), and contradictory results regarding the effects of regularity (Cuetos-Vega et al, 2007;Diéguez-Vide, 1993;Rosell, 2005;vs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Those verbs whose theta grids contain an agent (e.g., to chase, which requires a performer of the action) are less impaired when there is argument movement than those containing an experiencer (e.g., to amuse, to frighten, which require a receiver of the input). Leaving verbs aside, the production of definite articles has been found to be impaired (Arsenijević et al, 2011;Diéguez-Vide et al, 2012;Peña-Casanova et al, 2001;Peres, 1979). Patients produce both omission and substitution errors.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

2014

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Background: Castilian-Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and European Portuguese are the most widely spoken languages of the Ibero-Romance group. An increasing number of authors have addressed the impact of aphasia on the morphosyntax of these varieties. However, accurate linguistic characterisations are scarce and the different sources of data have not been yet compiled. Aims: To stimulate state-of-the-art research, we provided a comprehensive summary of morphosyntactic aspects of Ibero-Romance and a review of how these are affected in non-fluent aphasia. The topics we dealt with are the use of verb argument structure and morphology, sentential negation and word order, definite articles, personal and reflexive pronouns, passives, topicalised constructions, questions, and relative clauses. Methods & Procedures: An exhaustive fieldwork and search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Medline records were performed to retrieve studies focused on morphosyntactic issues concerning the Ibero-Romance varieties. A total of 27 studies produced by 46 authors of varying background emerged. We did not review studies of category-specific deficits and aspects related to bilingual aphasia, although we assume that most speakers of Galician and Catalan are bilingual. Studies of spontaneous speech were included when no controlled experimental tasks were available. Outcomes & Results: The morphosyntactic commonalities of Ibero-Romance have been tackled from different theoretical perspectives. There exist asymmetries in findings which we explain with the use of different tasks (and task complexity) and individual differences between participants. Conclusions: Discourse-linking factors as well as deviations from the canonical pattern are recurrent answers to these asymmetries. A comprehensive theory of impairments in non-fluent aphasia integrating relevant aspects of both structural and processing accounts seems necessary.

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Section: Verbal Morphology and Argument Structuresupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Passive Sentencesmentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

2014

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Are Personal and Reflexive Pronouns Dissociated in Agrammatic Comprehension? An Individual Participant Meta-Analysis With Clinical Implications

El Ouardi,

Yeou

2024

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose: This study had three objectives: (a) to verify if Grodzinsky et al.'s (1993) findings of worse comprehension of personal than reflexive pronouns can be replicated in a larger meta-analysis of individual participant data, (b) to examine if the heterogeneity found in the patterns of pronoun comprehension in agrammatism can be attributed to task effects, and (c) to evaluate the risk of bias in the reviewed studies. Method: Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, a systematic literature search was performed to identify studies examining the personal–reflexive pronoun dissociation in agrammatic comprehension. Seven studies met the search criteria and were included in the meta-analysis. For each participant, individual accuracy scores for the comprehension of personal and reflexive pronouns were extracted in addition to information on the study methods. Individual accuracy data were analyzed using the Fisher's exact test and the binomial test. The risk of bias in the studies was assessed using an adapted version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale. Results: The meta-analysis had three main findings: (a) The majority of the persons with agrammatic aphasia (89%) had no dissociation between the comprehension of personal and reflexive pronouns; (b) 8% revealed a pattern consistent with a neuropsychological dissociation, faring worse on the comprehension of personal than reflexive pronouns; and (c) 2% performed worse on reflexive than personal pronouns. The type of the task used affected pronoun comprehension accuracy and accounted for the heterogeneity in the patterns of pronoun comprehension attested across the different participants. Conclusions: Taken together, the meta-analysis did not support a dissociation between personal and reflexive pronoun comprehension in agrammatic comprehension. When confirmed, the dissociation was driven by task effects. The clinical implications of these findings were discussed together with implications to minimize the risk of bias in future examinations of the topic.

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Long and short passives in Catalan and Spanish

Gavarró

Dotti

2013

Aphasiology

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On manifestations of aphasia in Catalan: a case study of Broca's aphasia

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits

Are Personal and Reflexive Pronouns Dissociated in Agrammatic Comprehension? An Individual Participant Meta-Analysis With Clinical Implications

Long and short passives in Catalan and Spanish

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