TY - JOUR
T1 - Judgements of grammaticality in aphasia
T2 - The special case of Chinese
AU - Lu, Ching Ching
AU - Bates, Elizabeth
AU - Li, Ping
AU - Tzeng, Ovid
AU - Hung, Daisy
AU - Tsai, Chih Hao
AU - Lee, Shu Er
AU - Chung, Yu Mei
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Theories of agrammatism have been challenged by the discovery that agrammatic patients can make above-chance judgements of grammaticality. Chinese poses an interesting test of this phenomenon, because its grammar is so austere, with few obligatory features. An on-line grammaticality judgement task was conducted with normal and aphasic speakers of Chinese, using the small set of constructions that do permit judgements of grammaticality in this language. Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics showed similar patterns, with above-chance discrimination between grammatical and ungrammatical forms, suggesting once again that Broca's aphasics are not unique in the degree of sparing or impairment that they show in receptive grammar. However, even for young normals, false-negative rates were high. We conclude that there is some sensitivity to grammatical well-formedness in Chinese aphasics, but the effect is fragile for aphasics and probabilistic for normals, reflecting the peculiar status of grammaticality in this language.
AB - Theories of agrammatism have been challenged by the discovery that agrammatic patients can make above-chance judgements of grammaticality. Chinese poses an interesting test of this phenomenon, because its grammar is so austere, with few obligatory features. An on-line grammaticality judgement task was conducted with normal and aphasic speakers of Chinese, using the small set of constructions that do permit judgements of grammaticality in this language. Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics showed similar patterns, with above-chance discrimination between grammatical and ungrammatical forms, suggesting once again that Broca's aphasics are not unique in the degree of sparing or impairment that they show in receptive grammar. However, even for young normals, false-negative rates were high. We conclude that there is some sensitivity to grammatical well-formedness in Chinese aphasics, but the effect is fragile for aphasics and probabilistic for normals, reflecting the peculiar status of grammaticality in this language.
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U2 - 10.1080/02687030050156593
DO - 10.1080/02687030050156593
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:0033776990
SN - 0268-7038
VL - 14
SP - 1021
EP - 1054
JO - Aphasiology
JF - Aphasiology
IS - 10
ER -