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Unpruned trees in German Broca's aphasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Martina Penke
Affiliation:
Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universitaet Duesseldorf, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany penke@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de web.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
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Abstract

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Grodzinsky proposes that agrammatism leads to a “pruning” of the syntactic tree in speech production. For German, this assumption predicts that syntactic processes related to functional projections AgrP and CP should be impaired. An analysis of spontaneous-speech data from four Broca's aphasics with respect to subject-verb agreement and verb placement, however, indicates that phrase-structure representations in agrammatism are intact.

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© 2000 Cambridge University Press