On the basis of a decade's work on syntactic-comprehension disorders, primarily in the Neurolinguistics Laboratory of the Montreal Neurological Hospital, David Caplan and Nancy Hildebrandt present an original theory of these disturbances of language function. They suggest in this wide-ranging study that syntactic structure breaks down after damage to the brain because of specific impairments in the parsing processes and a general decrease in the amount of computational space that can be devoted to that function.Disorders of Syntactic Comprehension includes detailed single-case analyses and large-group studies, as well as a broad review of the literature on aphasia. It also provides introductions to syntactic structures and parsing for the reader unfamiliar with these subjects. It develops a general framework for viewing disorders in this area and for identifying a number of specific aspects of the breakdown of syntactic comprehension.The authors' richly detailed empirical linguistic database and their careful use of experimental materials enable them to bring the results of their research to bear on several aspects of theories of syntactic structure (Chomsky's theory) and parsing (the Berwick-Weinberg parser) and to use these theories to describe and explain aphasic phenomena. Moreover, the combination of population and group studies allows them to investigate the neurological basis of syntactic disorders in addition to the psychological and linguistic aspects.David N. Caplan is Associate Professor of Neurology and Linguistics at McGill University. Nancy Hildebrandt is in the Neurolinguistics Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Disorders of Syntactic Comprehension is included in the series Issues in the Biology of Language and Cognition, edited by John C. Marshall.
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The studies presented in this book consist of a number of investigations of the performance of unselected groups of aphasic patients on a task requiring the comprehension of syntactic form and a series of detailed individual studies of selected patients in which linguistic and processing analyses of performance on these tasks are developed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The studies presented in this book consist of a number of investigations of the performance of unselected groups of aphasic patients on a task requiring the comprehension of syntactic form and a series of detailed individual studies of selected patients in which linguistic and processing analyses of performance on these tasks are developed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bear kissed the donkey, locally ambiguous points, other aphasic impairments, sentential semantic features, donkey kissed patted, goat patted, propositional list, expressive agrammatism, pronoun embedded subject, sentences with two verbs, syntactic foils, deficit analyses, mean correct scores, cleft object, preverbal noun, agrammatic patients, dative passive, syntactic comprehension, dative sentences, sentences with reflexives, finite embedded clause, particular sentence types, baseline sentences, disjoint interpretation, referential dependencies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations (Cognitive Theory and Mental Representation) by Joan Bresnan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Neural Models of Language Processes (Perspectives in neurolinguistics, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics) by Michael Arbib in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Biological Perspectives on Language (MIT Press studies in neuropsychology and neurolinguistics) by David Caplan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Modular Deficits in Alzheimer-Type Dementia (Issues in the Biology of Language and Cognition) by Myrna F. Schwartz in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective by D. Frank Benson in Back Matter
- The Psychobiology of Down Syndrome (Issues in the Biology of Language and Cognition) by Lynn Nadel in Front Matter
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