AGREEMENT PROCESSING IN HUNGARIAN APHASICS

Crosslinguistic studies of sentence processing in aphasia in the Competition Model framework emphasize the extent to which strong cues are preserved in aphasia, while weak cues are lost. In addition, these studies have indicated that cues expressed by morphological markings, such as case and agreeme...

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Published in:Acta linguistica Hungarica 1997-01, Vol.44 (1/2), p.73-86
Main Authors: MacWHINNEY, BRIAN, OSMAN-SÁGI, JUDIT
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aphasia
Grammatical clauses
Linguistic agreement
Linguistics
Nouns
Sentences
Syntactics
Transitive verbs
Verbs
Word order
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Summary:Crosslinguistic studies of sentence processing in aphasia in the Competition Model framework emphasize the extent to which strong cues are preserved in aphasia, while weak cues are lost. In addition, these studies have indicated that cues expressed by morphological markings, such as case and agreement cues, are particularly vulnerable to damage. The processing of agreement cues in Hungarian is an interesting further test of this "selective vulnerability" of morphological marking, since Hungarian has a rich and complex system of agreement-marking coupled with a remarkably simple system for casemarking. In addition, aphasies may rely on cues such as animacy and word order when they are not able to process the more grammaticalized case and agreement cues. This study examines the relative cue strength of each of these four cues for aphasies in a simple sentence interpretation task. The results provide ftirther support for the importance of cue strength in aphasie processing, as well as pointing to the selective vulnerability of morphological cues, particularly in Wernicke's aphasia.
ISSN:1216-8076
1588-2624