Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy

@article{citeulike:252320, abstract = {The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether German agrammatic production data are compatible with the Tree-Pruning-Hypothesis (TPH; Friedmann \& Grodzinsky, 1997). The theory predicts unidirectional patterns of dissociation in agrammatic production data with respect to Tense and Agreement. However, there was evidence of a double dissociation between Tense and Agreement in our data. The presence of a bidirectional dissociation is incompatible with any theory which assumes a hierarchical order between these categories such as the TPH or other versions thereof (such as Lee's, 2003 top-down hypothesis). It will be argued that the data can better be accounted for by relying on newer linguistic theories such as the Minimalist Program (MP, Chomsky, 2000), which does not assume a hierarchical order between independent syntactic Tense and Agreement nodes but treats them as different features (semantically interpretable vs. uninterpretable) under a single node.}, author = {Burchert, Frank and Swoboda-Moll, Maria and Bleser, Ria D. }, citeulike-article-id = {252320}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.006}, journal = {Brain and Language}, keywords = {agreement, aphasia, german, patients, semantics, sentence, syntax, tense}, month = {August}, number = {2}, pages = {188--199}, posted-at = {2005-07-12 20:29:26}, priority = {2}, title = {Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.006}, volume = {94}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:252320 L3 - citeulike-article-id:252320 N2 - The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether German agrammatic production data are compatible with the Tree-Pruning-Hypothesis (TPH; Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997). The theory predicts unidirectional patterns of dissociation in agrammatic production data with respect to Tense and Agreement. However, there was evidence of a double dissociation between Tense and Agreement in our data. The presence of a bidirectional dissociation is incompatible with any theory which assumes a hierarchical order between these categories such as the TPH or other versions thereof (such as Lee's, 2003 top-down hypothesis). It will be argued that the data can better be accounted for by relying on newer linguistic theories such as the Minimalist Program (MP, Chomsky, 2000), which does not assume a hierarchical order between independent syntactic Tense and Agreement nodes but treats them as different features (semantically interpretable vs. uninterpretable) under a single node. IS - 2 JF - Brain and Language EP - 199 TI - Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy VL - 94 SP - 188 KW - agreement KW - aphasia KW - german KW - patients KW - semantics KW - sentence KW - syntax KW - tense AU - Burchert, Frank AU - Swoboda-Moll, Maria AU - Bleser, Ria PY - 2005/08// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.006 ER -