Effects of syntactic features on sentence-picture matching in Broca's aphasics: a reply to Drai and Grodzinksy (2005).
We reanalyzed the data in , considering individual patients' responses to different sentence types to be non-independent events. The analyses revealed effects of two of the three factors identified by Drai and Grodzinsky--constituent movement and passive mood. The result is inconsistent with the trace deletion hypothesis; we conclude that features of syntactic structure other than constituent movement are relevant to understanding performance variation in patients with Broca's aphasia.
Caplan
David
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Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. dcaplan@partners.org
DeDe
Gayle
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Brownell
Hiram
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D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics / Q000379:methods*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013067:Speech Perception