title: Levels of representation and units of access relevant to agrammatism.
abstract: The paper differentiates argument structure from other levels of representation and uses linguistic analysis of aphasic narrative production to support an enriched lexical entry for verbs that includes the d-structure representation of the configuration of the verb, its arguments, and any other lexically selected material. A single narrative production study and portions of two follow-up studies are presented. The argument structure distributions for two agrammatics (with varying degrees of fluency) and a nonagrammatic conduction aphasic with anomia are compared and contrasted with both matched controls and each other.
authors.affiliation: Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kegl
mesh_terms: D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D018886:Aphasia, Conduction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D013067:Speech Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior