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Syntactic processing in aphasia.

D Swinney·E Zurif
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In this report we comment upon subject selection and methodology, and we describe some recent studies of syntactic processing in aphasia. Our data show that, like neurologically intact subjects, Wernicke's patients reactivate moved constituents (instantiate coreference) at the site of their extraction (even for sentences that they do not understand). Broca's patients, by constrast, are shown not to create such syntactically governed links (even for sentences that they do understand). These data isolate the processing bottleneck in Broca's aphasia and more generally suggest that syntactic comprehension limitations can be traced to changes in cortically localizable resources that sustain lexical processing.

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Aphasia, BrocaAphasia, WernickeHumansLanguage DisordersLanguage TestsNeuropsychological TestsSpeech PerceptionVocabularyJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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D Swinney, E Zurif. 1995. Syntactic processing in aphasia.. https://doi.org/10.1006/brln.1995.1046

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