PERSON AND NUMBER AGREEMENT IN AGRAMMATISM

We investigated the person and number agreement performance of three agrammatic aphasies in sentences and possessive nominal phrases. In the tasks the patients had to supply 108 incomplete possessed nominal phrases and 108 incomplete verbs with the right inflectional markers. Generally, the number o...

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Published in:Acta linguistica Hungarica 2001-01, Vol.48 (1/3), p.217-242
Main Author: Meszaros, Eva
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Broca aphasia
Focus phrases
Linguistic agreement
Linguistics
Morphemes
NEUROLINGUISTICS IN THE MENTAL LEXICON
Noun phrases
Phrases
Sentences
Syntactics
Verbs
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Summary:We investigated the person and number agreement performance of three agrammatic aphasies in sentences and possessive nominal phrases. In the tasks the patients had to supply 108 incomplete possessed nominal phrases and 108 incomplete verbs with the right inflectional markers. Generally, the number or person agreement feature was checked in the answers, resulting in agreement errors. This finding suggests the diversity of the person and the number feature checking in the course of syntactic derivation. On the basis of substitution errors we will argue that in agrammatism the selection of the replacing suffixes is influenced by two factors. One of them is syntactic and the other is a nonlinguistic one.
ISSN:1216-8076
1588-2624