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Publication Date: 2005-Jan
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Finiteness and Verb-Second in German Agrammatism
Wenzlaff, Michaela; Clahsen, Harald
Brain and Language, v92 n1 p33-44 Jan 2005
This study presents results from sentence-completion and grammaticality-judgement tasks with seven German-speaking agrammatic aphasics and seven age-matched control subjects examining verb finiteness marking and verb-second (V2) placement. The patients were found to be selectively impaired in tense marking in the face of preserved mood and agreement marking. Moreover, our results revealed that V2 scores varied across our patients, with some showing impaired and others preserved V2 performance. These findings will be discussed in the light of different syntactic accounts of agrammatism.
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Grammar, Aphasia, Sentence Structure, Control Groups, Language Processing, Task Analysis, Scores, Morphemes
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