Agrammatism
- 1st Edition - November 14, 2013
- Editor: Mary-Louise Kean
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 2 8 3 0 - 2
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 4 1 4 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 7 6 6 - 0
Agrammatism provides an overview of the state of knowledge on agrammatism, typically defined as a disorder of sentence production involving the selective omission of function words… Read more
Agrammatism provides an overview of the state of knowledge on agrammatism, typically defined as a disorder of sentence production involving the selective omission of function words and some grammatical endings on words. The book opens with discussions of the diversity of the disorder. This is followed by separate chapters that address primarily questions of syntactic structure in agrammatism, from both linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives. Within these two gross sections there is no consensus among the conclusions reached by the various authors. However, the position is taken that agrammatism is a disorder distinct from other aphasie disorders of sentence structure. This position is reconsidered in the final two chapters. Because of the intrinsically interdisciplinary character of research on agrammatism, it is hoped that the work presented in this volume will be of interest to linguists and psycholinguists working in areas outside the domain of aphasia, as well as to neurolinguists and neuropsychologists who are already involved in the study of language deficits.
Contributors
Preface
1 Is Agrammatism a Unitary Phenomenon?
History of the Term 'Agrammatism'
Individual Variations within Agrammatism
Older Clinical Accounts and Explanations of Cross-Modal Associations and Dissociations
Accounts of Agrammatism
Dissociations among Agrammatic Phenomena
Other Dissociations of Open- versus Closed-Class Words
Psycholinguistic and Linguistic Aspects of the Content Word-Function Word Division
A Preliminary Formulation: the Role of Meaning
Critique of Data Presented in Support of Central Representation or Competency for Grammar
Critique of Studies Comparing Agrammatic and Fluent Subjects
Discussion: on Neuroanatomical and Psycholinguistic Models of Agrammatism
Reconsideration of Syntactic Processing
Lexical versus Syntactic Comprehension
Fluency and Grammatical Output
Summary
2 A Multicomponent Deficit View of Agrammatic Broca's Aphasia
A Framework and Methodology for the Explanation of Aphasic Disorders
Features of Agrammatism
Symptoms Often Co-Occurring with Agrammatic Speech Production
A General Model of Sentence Processing
An Interpretation of Agrammatism
Conclusion
3 Agrammatism: Structural Deficits and Antecedent Processing Disruptions
The Neurological Organization of Comprehension and Production Systems
Grammatical Characterizations of Agrammatic Aphasia
Lexical Processing and Agrammatic Aphasia
4 The Status of the Syntactic Deficit Theory of Agrammatism
Introduction
The Syntactic Description of Agrammatic Behavior
Nonsyntactic Explanations: an Example
Assumptions Underlying the Syntactic Deficit Theory
Alternative Versions of the Syntactic Deficit Theory
An Evaluation of the Syntactic Deficit Theory
The Mapping Hypothesis
Conclusions
Appendix: Published Reports on Patients
5 Syntactic and Semantic Structures in Agrammatism
Agrammatism as a Sign and as a Syndrome
Descriptions of Syntactic and Semantic Structures in Agrammatism
Competence and Performance in Agrammatism
Sentence Production in Agrammatism
Sentence Comprehension in Agrammatism
Mechanisms
Aspects of the Agrammatic Syndrome
6 Two Notes on the Linguistic Interpretation of Broca's Aphasia
Modular Approach
Configurational and Nonfigurational Strategies
Conclusion
7 On Parallelism between Production and Comprehension in Agrammatism
Introduction
Case Report
Discussion
Appendix: a Sample of Agrammatic Speech
8 Agrammatism versus Paragrammatism: a Fictitious Opposition
Introductory Remarks
Comprehension and Intuitions in Agrammatics and Paragrammatics
Language Production
References
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 14, 2013
- Language: English
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