On the preservation of word order in aphasia: Cross-linguistic evidence

Bates, Elizabeth; Friederici, Angela D.; Wulfeck, Beverly; Juarez, Larry

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(88)90072-7

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“…In this study, German speakers listening to simple transitive sentences relied more on agreement and semantic cues than on word order, compared to English speakers. However, under noise conditions, German speakersÕ use of agreement cues was severely curtailed, while use of word order cues increased slightly, just as in previous studies of aphasia (Bates, Friederici, & Wulfeck, 1987a, 1987bBates, Friederici, Wulfeck, & Juarez, 1988). As predicted, English speakers paid little attention to N-V agreement cues; their use of word order information was essentially unchanged in this single-degradation study.…”

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confidence: 74%

Spectral and temporal degradation of speech as a simulation of morphosyntactic deficits in English and German

2003

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Spectral and temporal degradation of the speech stream is increasingly used to model receptive language deficits such as aphasia and developmental language disorders. As with results from patient studies, the specific pattern of receptive deficits can reveal underlying structural and processing characteristics of different languages. Here, we test English-and German-speaking college studentsÕ auditory comprehension of complex morphosyntactic structures under normal and Ôdual-degradationÕ conditions. The resulting profiles of strength and vulnerability in the two languages highlight the cross-linguistic differences in reliability of syntactic and morphological cues, and closely resemble the deficits observed in previous studies of receptive aphasia.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 74%

Spectral and temporal degradation of speech as a simulation of morphosyntactic deficits in English and German

2003

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“…The first study of word order that we completed within our own crosslinguistic project (Bates, Friederici, Wulfeck & Juarez, 1988) focussed on the order of basic sentence constituents in English, Italian and German patients, showing that canonical sentence order (Subject-Verb-Object, or SVO) appears to be preserved in both Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics. Indeed, some patients (particularly Broca's) appear to overuse basic SVO, as though this word order type provided a kind of "safe harbor" for sentence planning.…”

Section: Sentence P R O D U C T I O Nmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-linguistic research in aphasia: An overview

1991

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Most of us would like to believe that the different patterns of language breakdown observed in aphasic patients reflect the way that the human mind and brain are organized for language. However, because so much modern research on aphasia has been carried out in English, it is difficult to separate universal mechanisms from language-specific content. Crosslinguistic com-parisons permit us to disentangle these confounds, while we address one of the most important issues in cognitive neurobiology, the issue of behavioral and neural plasticity:How many different forms can the language processor take under a range of normal and abnormal conditions? We must have an answer to this question if we want to understand what the neural mechanisms responsible for language really are and really do.The nine papers presented within this special crosslinguistic issue of Brain and Language provide important new information about universal and language-specific patterns of sparing and impairment, in nonfluent "agrammatic" Broca's aphasics and in fluent patients with a diagnosis of Wernicke's aphasia. These crosslinguistic studies fall into two categories: (1) research in which language type is treated as an independent variable, by conducting the same experiment with equivalent materials in two or more different languages, and (2) research in which language type is treated as a natural experiment, using the peculiar characteristics of a single language to answer a question that would be difficult to ask in (for example) English. Studies applying one or both of these cross-linguistic methods have yielded six basic findings, summarized briefly as follows.(1) Crosslinguistic variation: First, the papers in this issue (and related crosslinguistic studies by these investigators and other research groups -see Menn and Obler, 1990) clearly demonstrate that the "same" aphasic syndromes look very different from one language to another.Indeed, language differences account for more variance than patient group differences in many of our crosslinguistic experiments to date (e.g

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“…Bates and Devescovi (1989) report similar findings on the production of relative clauses, which are 3-5 times more common in Italian than English, and appear with high frequency in the speech of Italian children by three years of age. From yet another perspective, Bates, Friederici, Wulfeck and Juarez (1988) have shown that the retention of word order variations by Italian-speaking Broca's aphasics is directly related to the frequency of those word order types in informal discourse. Taken together, these findings suggest that the production of syntactic frames is subject to the same factors that are known to govern access and production of individual words -in this case, demonstrated effects of frequency and recency.…”

Section: On the Inseparability Of Grammar And The Lexicon In Normmentioning

confidence: 99%