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Agent-assignment, tree-pruning, and Broca's aphasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Frederick J. Newmeyer
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4340 fjn@washington.edu
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Abstract

I wholeheartedly endorse Grodzinsky's program of attempting to tie the particular deficits observed in Broca's aphasics' comprehension and production to changes in their mentally represented model of grammar. At the level of detail, however, I see problems with two specific changes that Grodzinsky posits. One is a default Agent-assignment strategy in comprehension. The other is the hypothesis that production involves pruning all functional projections above Agreement Phrase.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 44 - 45
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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