The On-Line Processing of Unaccusativity in Greek Agrammatism

Autor/inn/en	Peristeri, Eleni; Tsimpli, Ianthi-Maria; Tsapkini, Kyrana
Titel	The On-Line Processing of Unaccusativity in Greek Agrammatism
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2013) 2, S.233-276 (44 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716411000683
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Sentence Structure; Patients; Sentences; Language Processing; Greek; Aphasia; Mnemonics; Verbs; Grammar; Computer Assisted Testing; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Patient; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sprachverarbeitung; Grieche; Griechisch; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Mnemotechnik; Grammatik
Abstract	We investigated the on-line processing of unaccusative and unergative sentences in a group of eight Greek-speaking individuals diagnosed with Broca aphasia and a group of language-unimpaired subjects used as the baseline. The processing of unaccusativity refers to the reactivation of the postverbal trace by retrieving the mnemonic representation of the verb's syntactically defined antecedent provided in the early part of the sentence. Our results demonstrate that the Broca group showed selective reactivation of the antecedent for the unaccusatives. We consider several interpretations for our data, including explanations focusing on the transitivization properties of nonactive and active voice-alternating unaccusatives, the costly procedure claimed to underlie the parsing of active nonvoice-alternating unaccusatives, and the animacy of the antecedent modulating the syntactic choices of the patients. (As Provided).
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