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Comprehension of wh-questions and declarative sentences in agrammatic aphasia: the set partition hypothesis

Salis, C. and Edwards, S. (2008) Comprehension of wh-questions and declarative sentences in agrammatic aphasia: the set partition hypothesis. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 21 (5). pp. 375-399. ISSN 0911-6044

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2007.11.001

Abstract/Summary

Problematic trace-antecedent relations between deep and surface structure have been a dominant theme in sentence comprehension in agrammatism. We challenge this view and propose that the comprehension in agrammatism in declarative sentences and wh-questions stems from impaired processing in logical form. We present new data from wh-questions and declarative sentences and advance a new hypothesis which we call the set partition hypothesis. We argue that elements that signal set partition operations influence sentence comprehension while trace-antecedent relations remain intact. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences
ID Code:13880
Uncontrolled Keywords:agrammatism, aphasia, comprehension, wh-questions, declaratives, set, partition, BROCAS APHASICS, LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION, SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY, DEFICITS, TIME, DEPENDENCIES, DISSOCIATION, MORPHOLOGY, SUBJECT, ACCESS

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