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Su, Yi-ching.; Lee, Shu-er; Chung, Yuh-mei – Brain and Language, 2007
This study examines the comprehension patterns of various sentence types by Mandarin-speaking aphasic patients and evaluates the validity of the predictions from the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis (TDH) and the Double Dependency Hypothesis (DDH). Like English, the canonical word order in Mandarin is SVO, but the two languages differ in that the head…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Patients, Syntax, Mandarin Chinese
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Alexiadou, Artemis; Stavrakaki, Stavroula – Brain and Language, 2006
In this paper, we investigate the performance of a Greek-English bilingual patient with Broca's aphasia and mild agrammatism on the placement of CP, MoodP, AspectP, and NegP-related adverbs, labeled specifier-type adverbs, and VP-related adverbs, labeled complement-type adverbs, by means of a constituent ordering task and a grammaticality judgment…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Bilingualism, Patients, Aphasia
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Nicoladis, Elena; Murphy, Victoria A. – Brain and Language, 2004
English-speaking children typically avoid using regular plurals in novel grammatical deverbal compounds as in "rat eater" but allow irregular plurals as in "mice eater" (Gordon, 1985). To explain these data, it has been argued that Kiparsky's (1983) level-ordering model constrains the production of morphologically complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Speakers, Children