Adverb placement as evidence for clause structure and parameterization of verb movement in a bilingual Greek-English speaking patient with Broca’s aphasia

Current generative grammar predicts a larger set of transitive structures than the six types normally mentioned in the typological handbooks (SVO, SOV, VSO, etc). The main cause of this discrepancy is that, whereas generative grammar investigates the hierarchical positions of the verb and its arguments, most typological research is concerned with their relative surface order. In order to bring together these two lines of research, we have to translate the predictions of generative grammar into a more sophisticated typology in linear terms that can be taken as the point of departure for future typological research. This programmatic article is written in the hope that the generative grammar may help typologists to find certain so far unknown typological differences between languages, and that typologists, in turn, may help generative grammar by providing the relevant typological data that are needed to evaluate the competing theoretical proposals and to improve the most successful ones. Keywords: word order typology, phrase structure theory, verb movement, adverb placement.

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The Effects of Augmented Reality Based Language Intervention on the Verb Naming Abilities of Patients with Broca’s Aphasia

JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION & REHABILITATION SCIENCE ◽

10.23944/jsers.2020.03.59.1.12 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 245-263

Author(s):

Yoon-ji Kim ◽

Soon-Bok Kwon

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

Language Intervention ◽

Broca's Aphasia ◽

Broca’S Aphasia

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SURG-40. SURGICAL RESECTIONS IN BROCA’S AREA DO NOT LEAD TO BROCA’S APHASIA

Neuro-Oncology ◽

10.1093/neuonc/noaa215.886 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (Supplement_2) ◽

pp. ii212-ii212

Author(s):

John Andrews ◽

Nathan Cahn ◽

Benjamin Speidel ◽

Valerie Lu ◽

Mitchel Berger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽

Brain Surgery ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Supramarginal Gyrus ◽

Broca's Aphasia ◽

Broca’S Aphasia ◽

Language Evaluations ◽

Lesion Symptom Mapping ◽

Normal Speech

Abstract Brodmann’s areas 44/45 of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), are the seat of Broca’s area. The Western Aphasia Battery is a commonly used language battery that diagnoses aphasias based on fluency, comprehension, naming and repetition. Broca’s aphasia is defined as low fluency (0-4/10), retained comprehension (4-10/10), and variable deficits in repetition (0-7.9/10) and naming (0-8/10). The purpose of this study was to find anatomic areas associated with Broca’s aphasia. Patients who underwent resective brain surgery in the dominant hemisphere were evaluated with standardized language batteries pre-op, POD 2, and 1-month post-op. The resection cavities were outlined to construct 3D-volumes of interest. These were aligned using an affine transformation to MNI brain space. A voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) algorithm determined areas associated with Broca’s aphasia when incorporated into a resection. Post-op MRIs were reviewed blindly and percent involvement of pars orbitalis, triangularis and opercularis was recorded. 287 patients had pre-op and POD 2 language evaluations and 178 had 1 month post-op language evaluation. 82/287 patients had IFG involvement in resections. Only 5/82 IFG resections led to Broca’s aphasia. 11/16 patients with Broca’s aphasia at POD 2 had no involvement of IFG in resection. 35% of IFG resections were associated with non-specific dysnomia and 36% were normal. By one-month, 76% of patients had normal speech. 80% of patients with Broca’s aphasia at POD 2 improved to normal speech at 1-month, with 20% improved to non-specific dysnomia. The most highly correlated (P< 0.005) anatomic areas with Broca’s aphasia were juxta-sylvian pre- and post-central gyrus extending to supramarginal gyrus. While Broca’s area resections were rarely associated with Broca’s aphasia, juxta-sylvian pre- and post-central gyri extending to the supramarginal gyrus were statistically associated with Broca’s type aphasia when resected. These results have implications for planning resective brain surgery in these presumed eloquent brain areas.

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