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This paper contributes to the discussion of the nature of the underlying deficit found in Agrammatic Broca’s aphasia. In the tradition of Linebarger et al. (1983), Saffran et al. (1985) and Shankweiler et al. (1989) and others, we present evidence that challenges the common notion that agrammatic comprehension deficits follow from an inability to generate well formed syntactic representations in response to linguistic stimuli. We will also demonstrate that, in the case presented here, a wide range of syntactic knowledge is still accessible.
The experimental results reported on here were gathered at the University Medical Center of the University of Arizona. The encouragement and assistance of the members of the Program in Cognitive Science, the Department of Linguistics and the Neurological Service of the University Medical Center is gratefully acknowledged. In particular, I wish to acknowledge the help and support of Janet Nicol, Steve Rapscik, Alan Rubens, Merrill Garrett, David Basilico and John D’Andrea.
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Saddy, D. (1992). Sensitivity to Islands in an Aphasic Individual. In: Goodluck, H., Rochemont, M. (eds) Island Constraints. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1980-3_15
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