title: Assignment of thematic roles to nouns in sentence comprehension by an agrammatic patient.
abstract: We present the results of a study of sentence comprehension in an agrammatic patient. The patient showed striking regularities in interpreting a wide variety of sentence structures. We analyze her performance as the result of attempting to interpret a simplified syntactic structure, consisting of a linear sequence of lexical categories, according to a number of simple interpretive strategies.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D013067:Speech Perception