title: Effects of syntactic features on sentence-picture matching in Broca's aphasics: a reply to Drai and Grodzinksy (2005).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. dcaplan@partners.org
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Caplan
authors.forename: Gayle
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: DeDe
authors.forename: Hiram
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brownell
mesh_terms: 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