Syntactic comprehension disturbances in Japanese aphasics were investigated focusing on
the role of category order and thematic role order. The data from Japanese aphasics show …

This study assessed (1) aphasic subjects' sensitivity to the given-new structure within simple
paragraphs and (2) the extent to which narrative discourse is facilitative of syntactic …

Syntactic complexity was systematically manipulated in sentence and discourse
comprehension tasks. Aphasic patients, but not normal controls, showed effects of syntactic …

This paper begins with a brief review of major theoretical accounts of English aphasic
sentence comprehension, including the mapping hypothesis (Linebarger et al. 1983), the …

Background: Comprehension of semantically reversible sentences is often impaired in
Broca's aphasia. When the arguments in such sentences are in derived order, they are more …

Background: Recent studies have reported impairments in the production of sentences
containing unaccusative verbs (eg, The ball bounced down the street) in agrammatic …

This paper reports the performances of two Cantonese aphasics on tasks examining their
sentence processing deficits. The data on sentence comprehension show that thematically …

Aphasics' ability to assign thematic roles during sentence comprehension was investigated.
The study was motivated by the hypothesis that capacity limitations, eg, due to slowed …

Five aphasic subjects, who demonstrated agrammatic speech, and eight control subjects
were presented with a sentence-picture matching task in which the factors of syntactic …

This study examines the comprehension patterns of various sentence types by Mandarin-
speaking aphasic patients and evaluates the validity of the predictions from the Trace …