Agrammatism in sentence production without comprehension deficits: Reduced availability of syntactic structures and/or of grammatical morphemes? A case study

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nespoulous ◽  
Monique Dordain ◽  
Cecile Perron ◽  
Bernadette Ska ◽  
Daniel Bub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Production ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes

scholarly journals Sentence production in rehabilitation of agrammatism: A case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Lima Silagi ◽  
Fernanda Naito Hirata ◽  
Lúcia Iracema Zanotto de Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Broca's Aphasia ◽  
Broca’S Aphasia ◽  
Positive Results

Agrammatism is characterized by morphosyntactic deficits in production of sentences. Studies dealing with the treatment of these deficits are scarce and their results controversial. The present study describes the rehabilitation of a case diagnosed as chronic Broca's aphasia, with agrammatism, using a method directed to sentence structural deficits. The method aims to expand the grammatical repertoire by training production of sentences with support from contexts that stimulate actions and dialogues. The patient showed positive results on all types of sentences trained and generalized the gains to spontaneous speech. However, these benefits were not sustained in the long term.

Does training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production in agrammatic aphasia generalize to comprehension? A multiple single case study

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
A. Schröder ◽  
N. Stadie ◽  
J. Postler ◽  
Antje Lorenz ◽  
M. Swoboda-Moll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Agrammatic Aphasia

Agrammatism in Adult Persian Broca's Aphasia: A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Salehnejad ◽  
Mansoore Shekaramiz
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobe ◽  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Broca's Aphasia ◽  
Control Data ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Broca’S Aphasia ◽  
Frontal Lobe Lesion

The grammar of a right-handed monolingual adult native speaker of Persian who suffered from Broca's aphasic following a left hemisphere frontal lobe lesion subsequent to CVA was analyzed, discussed, and compared with control data. The spontaneous speech and descriptive speech were designed and performed. The data suggested that Persian agrammatism appears like this syndrome in other studied languages; there are severe impairments in the verbs and patients rely more on nouns than on verbs. The patterns of omissions and substitutions of grammatical morphemes seem show extreme variations in different patients, both in terms of the occurrence of errors in different grammatical morphemes as and in terms of the occurrence of omissions versus substitutions. There were also some language-particular patterns.

Discourse and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jeffrey Farrar
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Maternal Discourse

ABSTRACTAdult recasts of child utterances have been shown to be related in a general way to the child's acquisition of syntactic structures. The current study had two aims. The first aim was to determine which feature(s) of recasts (i.e. reformulation, expansion, topic continuation, or reply) was responsible for facilitating language acquisition by comparing them to other maternal discourse models that were systematically defined by these properties. The second aim was to investigate this relation more specifically by relating adult discourse models of specific grammatical morphemes to the child's acquisition of those same morphemes. Again, recasts were of particular interest. Twelve mother-child dyads were videorecorded during one hour of naturalistic interaction when the children were 1;10 and 2;4. Results indicated that maternal recasts of specific morphemes were related to the acquisition of those same grammatical morphemes during certain developmental periods, whereas other grammatical morphemes were facilitated by expansions and topic continuations. These results are discussed in terms of the processes responsible for these effects.

Language switching constraints: more than syntax? Data from Media Lengua

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN M. LIPSKI
Keyword(s):  
Language Identification ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Logical Semantic ◽  
Acceptability Judgment

This study investigates the relationship between intra-sentential codeswitching restrictions after subject pronouns, negative elements, and interrogatives and language-specific syntactic structures. Data are presented from two languages that have non-cognate lexicons but share identical phrase structure and syntactic mechanisms and exactly thesamegrammatical morphemesexcept forpronouns, negators, and interrogative words. The languages are the Quichua of Imbabura province, Ecuador and Ecuadorian Media Lengua (ML), consisting of Quichua morphosyntax with Spanish-derived lexical roots. Bilingual participants carried out un-timed acceptability judgment and language-identification tasks and concurrent memory-loaded repetition on utterances in Quichua, ML, and various mixtures of Quichua and ML. The acceptability and classification data show a main effect for category of single-word switches (significant differences for lexical vs. interrogative, negative, and for acceptability, pronoun) and repetition data show significant differences between lexical vs. interrogatives and negators. Third-person pronouns (which require an explicit antecedent) also differ significantly from lexical items. Logical-semantic factors may contribute to code-switching restrictions.

Model-guided treatment to improve written sentence production: A case study

Aphasiology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte C. Mitchum ◽  
Anne N. Haendiges ◽  
Rita Sloan Berndt
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Production

scholarly journals Alternantie en verbale monosemie

1970 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Ann Coene
Keyword(s):  
Unified Model ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
Core Meaning ◽  
Variable Valency

This paper is a case study of the valency of the German verb wissen'to know'. The analysis is based on a descriptive model which combinesthe lexical theory of basic core meaning with a syntactic theory of alternation.Integrating these two theories into a unified model serves twopurposes. Firstly, it is argued that variable valency patterns can be explainedas a structured paradigm on the level of langue. On this level,the most frequent pattern in a corpus can be regarded as the basic structureunderlying different alternation types. The alternations may be purelystructural or - if the syntactic alternations correspond to changes inthe standard reading of the verb - structural-semantic. Secondly, thebasic meaning of the verb turns out to be analysable by means of paradigmaticallyarranged meaning elements. Thus, the analysis shows thatlexical and syntactic structures are mutually determined. The case studysupports the view that both the paradigmatic and the syntagmatic meaningsof valency bearing elements are interrelated in a structured, nonarbitraryway. It offers both theoretical insights as to which types ofstructural-semantic regularities determine variable valency patterns, andpractical ideas for the lexicography of valency bearing elements.

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