Parallels in the breakdown of CP and DP-internal movement processes in agrammatism: A preliminary case study

Object scrambling and finiteness in Turkish agrammatic production

“…Although the Dutch matrix clause is twice as frequent as embedded clause (Corpus Gesproken Netherlands), it is significantly more difficult to produce. Similar findings have been reported for German (Rausch, Burchert, & De Bleser, 2005). This implies that the frequency of a sentence structure does not play a decisive role in agrammatic production.…”

Parallel functional category deficits in clauses and nominal phrases: The case of English agrammatism

“…Interestingly, the results of these studies support our findings. For example, Rausch et al (2005, 2007) found parallel impairments in both clauses and nominal phrases among aphasic patients. They reported that agrammatic individuals had difficulty with non-canonical word orders in clauses and nominal phrases, which arose in both production and comprehension tasks.…”

“…To our knowledge, only a few studies in the aphasia literature have examined impairment patterns across clausal and nominal domains (Rausch, Burchert, & De Bleser, 2005, 2007; Roeper, Ramos, Seymour, & Abdul-Karim, 2001). Interestingly, the results of these studies support our findings.…”

“…They reported that agrammatic individuals had difficulty with non-canonical word orders in clauses and nominal phrases, which arose in both production and comprehension tasks. In one study, Rausch et al (2005) tested aphasic production of the following constructions in German: …”

“…According to Rausch et al (2005), the second position of finite verbs in matrix clauses is derived through movement. In nominal phrases, while the proper name obligatorily moves to the prenominal position when the determiner is absent (42a–b), it has to stay in the postnominal position in the presence of a determiner (42c–d).…”