Lesion-Site Affects Grammatical Gender Assignment in German: Perception and Production Data

Autor/inn/en	Hofmann, Juliane; Kotz, Sonja A.; Marschhauser, Anke; von Cramon, D. Yves; Friederici, Angela D.
Titel	Lesion-Site Affects Grammatical Gender Assignment in German: Perception and Production Data
Quelle	In: Neuropsychologia, 45 (2007) 5, S.954-965 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0028-3932
DOI	10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.08.029
Schlagwörter	German; Grammar; Phonology; Morphology (Languages); Semantics; Neurological Impairments; Aphasia; Nouns; Form Classes (Languages); Neurological Organization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Deutscher; Grammatik; Fonologie; Morphology; Morphologie; Semantik; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Analytischer Sprachbau
Abstract	Two experiments investigated phonological, derivational-morphological and semantic aspects of grammatical gender assignment in a perception and a production task in German aphasic patients and age-matched controls. The agreement of a gender indicating adjective (feminine, masculine or neuter) and a noun was evaluated during perception in Experiment 1 (grammaticality judgment). In Experiment 2 the same participants had to produce the matching definite article to a noun. In the perception task patients with left frontal lesions (LF) made more errors during phonological gender assignment as compared to derivational-morphological and semantic gender assignment, while patients with lesions of the posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) made more errors in derivational-morphological gender assignment as compared to phonological and semantic gender assignment. In the production task no differences between patient groups were found. These data support previous evidence that left frontal brain areas are critically involved in phonological processing. The pSTG on the other hand may be critically engaged in the integration of phonological and lexical information essential for phonological and derivational-morphological gender assignment. (Contains 6 figures and 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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