Impaired Comprehension of Raising-to-Subject Constructions in Parkinson's Disease

This paper describes an experiment which shows that roughly half of nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have impaired comprehension of subject-to-subject and object-to-subject raising constructions (e.g.,Susan seems to Bill to be tallandSusan is hard for Bill to catch), but have...

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Published in:Brain and language 1999-02, Vol.66 (3), p.311-328
Main Author: Kemmerer, David
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Biological and medical sciences
Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases
Female
Humans
Language Disorders - complications
Male
Medical sciences
Memory Disorders - etiology
Middle Aged
Neurology
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Parkinson Disease - complications
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Semantics
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Summary:This paper describes an experiment which shows that roughly half of nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have impaired comprehension of subject-to-subject and object-to-subject raising constructions (e.g.,Susan seems to Bill to be tallandSusan is hard for Bill to catch), but have normal comprehension of the counterpart constructions (e.g.,It seems to Bill that Susan is tallandIt's hard for Bill to catch Susan). Several possible explanations for this pattern of performance are considered, including a parsing disorder, a syntactic-semantic linking disorder, a reduction of working memory capacity, slowed speed of syntactic processing, and difficulty with the experimental task. Although some of these explanations are arguably more plausible than others, the exact nature of the comprehension impairment remains unclear.
ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.1999.2022