Aphasia in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADOD): Evidence from Chinese

BSH Weekes - American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Speech and language impairments (aphasia) are typical of patients with Alzheimer's
Disease and other dementias (ADOD) and in some pathologies are diagnostic eg Primary …

Is there a processing preference for object relative clauses in Chinese? Evidence from ERPs

T Bulut, SK Cheng, KY Xu, DL Hung, DH Wu - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A consistent finding across head-initial languages, such as English, is that subject relative
clauses (SRCs) are easier to comprehend than object relative clauses (ORCs). However …

Relationship between cognitive functions and multilevel language processing: Data from Chinese speakers with aphasia and implications

WSW Wong, SP Law - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between nonverbal cognitive
functions and language processing of people with aphasia (PWA) by taking a data-driven …

Processing the Chinese language: An introduction

X Zhou, Z Ye, H Cheung, HC Chen - Language and Cognitive …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The Chinese language possesses linguistic properties that are distinct from those of the
most widely studied European languages. Given such uniqueness, research on the …

Asyntactic thematic role assignment by Mandarin aphasics: A test of the Trace-Deletion Hypothesis and the Double Dependency Hypothesis

YC Su, S Lee, Y Chung - Brain and Language, 2007 - Elsevier
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 …

Sentence comprehension in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type

X Liu, W Wang, H Wang, Y Sun - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Sentence comprehension is diminished in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type
(DAT). However, the underlying reason for such deficits is still not entirely clear. The …

Assessing syntactic deficits in Chinese Broca's aphasia using the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences-Chinese (NAVS-C)

H Wang, CK Thompson - Aphasiology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: English-speaking patients with Broca's aphasia and agrammatism evince
difficulty with complex grammatical structures, including verbs and sentences. A few studies …

Can non-linguistic cognitive stimulation enhance the cognitive and linguistic functions of people with aphasia receiving conversation therapy? Preliminary findings

WWS Wong, SP Law - Aphasiology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Non-linguistic cognitive deficits, which are common in people with aphasia
(PWA), have been found to predict language treatment gains, particularly in naming therapy …

Sentence processing deficits in two Cantonese aphasic patients

SP Law, MT Leung - Brain and Language, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper reports the performances of two Cantonese aphasics on tasks examining their
sentence processing deficits. The data on sentence comprehension show that thematically …

Structural prominence hypothesis and Chinese aphasic sentence comprehension

SP Law - Brain and Language, 2000 - Elsevier
The Structural Prominence Hypothesis (SPH) proposed in Friederici and Gorrell (1998) has
been claimed to find support from cross-linguistic data and to be empirically superior to …