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ERIC Number: EJ729839
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Feb
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0093-934X
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Comprehension of Passives in Broca's Aphasia
Bastiaanse, Roelien; van Zonneveld, Ron
Brain and Language, v96 n2 p135-142 Feb 2006
Drai and Grodzinsky have statistically analyzed a large corpus of data on the comprehension of passives by patients with Broca's aphasia. The data come, according to Drai and Grodzinsky, from binary choice tasks. Among the languages that are analyzed are Dutch and German. Drai and Grodzinsky argue that Dutch and German speaking Broca patients should be relatively good (that is, perform above chance) on comprehension of passive sentences, since in Dutch and German passives the relative order of the object and lexical verb is the underlying order and hence no movement takes place. We will demonstrate that both their linguistic arguments and their selection of Dutch data are invalid.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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