Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy

Burchert, Frank; Swoboda-Moll, Maria; Bleser, Ria De

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.006

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“…This high accuracy of verb morphology in locally constrained contexts is consistent with previous cross-linguistic research on access to well-formedness constraints of verb morphology (Bastiaanse & van Zonneveld, 1998;De Blesser et al, 1996;Kolk & Heeschen, 1992;Lonzi & Luzzatti, 1993) and will be described in the General discussion. The findings of this Experiment are inconsistent with most syntactic accounts which propose that a deficit of the tense node in the syntactic tree representation impairs all syntactic computations of tense (Arabatzi & Edwards, 2002;Burchert et al, 2005;Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997;Wenzlaff & Clahsen, 2004). The next step in investigating the psycholinguistic underpinnings of verb inflection deficits in agrammatism is to examine DER and morphological complexity.…”

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“…mood, or case, tense morphology is known to be especially vulnerable to disruption in agrammatic aphasia in several languages (in English: Arabatzi & Edwards, 2000;and Nadeau & Rothi, 1992;in Spanish: Benedet, Christiansen, & Goodglass, 1998;in Hebrew: Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997;in Dutch: Kolk, 2000;in German: Wenzlaff & Clahsen, 2004;in Italian: De Blesser, Bayer, & Luzzatti, 1996;in Greek: Stavrakaki & Kouvava, 2003; but see Burchert, Swoboda-Moll, & De Bleser, 2005, for contrary data). The typical cross-linguistic pattern is substitution of verb forms, such as, *The dentist fix my teeth (target: fixed or will fix), and *The maid washing the window (target: washed or is/was washing).…”

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Verb inflections in agrammatic aphasia: Encoding of tense features☆

Faroqi‐Shah

Thompson

2007

Journal of Memory and Language

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Across most languages, verbs produced by agrammatic aphasic individuals are frequently marked by syntactically and semantically inappropriate inflectional affixes, such as Last night, I walking home. As per language production models, verb inflection errors in English agrammatism could arise from three potential sources: encoding the verbs' morphology based on temporal information at the conceptual level, accessing syntactic well-formedness constraints of verbal morphology, and encoding morphophonological form. We investigate these aspects of encoding verb inflections in agrammatic aphasia. Using three sentence completion experiments, it was demonstrated that production of verb inflections was impaired whenever temporal reference was involved; while morphological complexity and syntactic constraints were less likely to be the source of verb inflection errors in agrammatism. These findings are discussed in relation to current language production models. KeywordsMorphology; Broca's aphasia; Language; Verb; Inflection; Models of sentence production Aphasia is an impairment in producing and/or comprehending language resulting from acute brain injury such as a cerebrovascular accident. Agrammatic speech is commonly associated with the clinical syndrome of Broca's aphasia, and is frequently characterized by ill-formed sentences, reduced syntactic complexity, a paucity of verbs, and grammatical morpheme errors. Production of both free grammatical morphemes and inflectional morphemes can be impaired in agrammatic aphasia. Across most languages that have been studied, verbs produced by agrammatic aphasic individuals are frequently marked by syntactically and semantically inappropriate inflectional affixes in a variety of tasks including spontaneous speech,

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Verb inflections in agrammatic aphasia: Encoding of tense features☆

Faroqi‐Shah

Thompson

2007

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…In fact, verb deficit is among the main defining features of this type of aphasia: only a small number of verbs is typically found in spontaneous speech of these patients regardless of language. They typically omit auxiliaries (such as is, will), and either omit or substitute inflectional affixes (such as -ed in walked) (Miceli, Silveri, Villa & Caramazza, 1984;Menn & Obler, 1990;Hagiwara, 1995, Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997Bastiaanse & Thompson, 2003;Burchert et al, 2005;Druks & Carroll, 2005;Diouny, 2007;Bastiaanse, 2008). It has been claimed that paragrammatic speakers, on the other hand, exhibit the opposite pattern, performing better on tasks involving verbs than those with nouns, and making semantic errors and circumlocutions in production of critical forms (Druks, 2002).…”

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Language Reorganization After Stroke: Insights from fMRI

Kljajević¹

2012

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - Advanced Neuroimaging Applications

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“…The selfpaced reading task uses negative imperatives as stimulus sentences. Imperatives have an advantage over finite clauses against the background of converging on-and offline experimental findings which locate the source of agrammatic behaviour at the structural and notional representation of tense (Burchert et al 2005a;Faroqi-Shah and Dickey 2009;Yarbay Duman and Bastiaanse 2009;Wenzlaff and Clahsen 2004), and strengthen the notion that tense disturbances do not necessarily prune the syntactic structure (Burchert et al 2008;Dickey et al 2008;Stavrakaki and Kouvava 2003). Additionally, the experiment seeks to contribute to the discussion revolving around differences in the comprehension of personal and reflexive pronouns.…”

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Processing Clitic Pronouns in Bulgarian — Evidence from Normal and Agrammatic Comprehension

Kuehnast

2009

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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Clitic clusters display a complicated interaction of prosodic and syntactic properties which determines their word order and stress patterns. In Bulgarian, short pronouns appear as unstressed verbal enclitics in positive utterances. Proclitic negation attracts the pronouns and forms with them a prosodic unit stressed on the second syllable, the pronoun. Theoretical linguistics characterizes the behaviour of object clitics in terms of "non-trivial chains" (Bošković 2001) containing copies. The overt realisation of a higher or lower copy depends on phonological constraints like enclitisation requirements. In line with the slow-syntax-hypothesis (Burkhardt et al. 2008) and with the assumption that prosody-related processes may also compete for the same limited processing resources of Broca's aphasics , we test sensitivity to the phonosyntactic constraints negation imposes on the word order of personal and reflexive clitics. Results suggest that the pattern of agrammatic processing of clitic clusters resembles normal comprehension but proceeds in a protracted manner. Employing a self-paced reading task and an experimental design which reduces discourse-related interpretation processes, we also show that the syntactic functions of personal object clitics as syntactic object agreement markers in Bulgarian are relatively preserved in the aphasic group.

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Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy

Cited by 76 publications

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Verb inflections in agrammatic aphasia: Encoding of tense features☆

Verb inflections in agrammatic aphasia: Encoding of tense features☆

Language Reorganization After Stroke: Insights from fMRI

Processing Clitic Pronouns in Bulgarian — Evidence from Normal and Agrammatic Comprehension

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