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On-line Integration of Grammatical Information in Wernicke’s and Broca’s Aphasia

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Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience

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Normal sentence comprehension depends on the listener’s ability to compute structural as well as meaning-based information, and to relate the ongoing analyses of these two global information sources in language to each other quickly and efficiently (Marslen-Wilson & Welsh 1978; Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980; Tyler 1985, 1988; Marslen-Wilson 1987, 1989). Normal comprehension can fail, at least partially, in two ways. First, if the representation of either type of information is lost, then the integration process will be unable to function normally. Second, the representation of grammatical information may remain intact, but a temporal lag in the computation of syntactic and/or semantic information may result in a failure to construct a coherent, integrated meaning.

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Kilborn, K. (1994). On-line Integration of Grammatical Information in Wernicke’s and Broca’s Aphasia. In: Hillert, D. (eds) Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience. Linguistische Berichte. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91649-5_12

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