NSCS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Syntactic Movement, Theta Role, Aphasia
1 Oct 2016
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Reminders about last week"s lecture - language part 1. Have difficulty in producing speech but no difficulty in understanding. We are going to see that broca"s aphasics" understanding is not flawless, they have specific problems with some specific syntactic forms. So, they"re unable to produce complex sentences and their understanding is okay Two images and two sentences that syntactically have a different meaning. The patient had to identify which is the correct image/text pairing. Often 100% correct performance signal - absence of a comprehension impairment. This is not pronounced nor written, but it is mentally computed. You bought a book but did not read it. Which book did you buy but did not read. I wonder how many books you have bought but never read. Empty categories: have no chronological expression and in writing have no written expression. The power of silent elements = empty categories. May called peter and told him what to read.
