The neurology of empty categories: Aphasics' failure to detect ungrammaticality

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-292

  Grodzinsky, Yosef ^a,b   Finkel, Lisa ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; APHASIA; APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031943146     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892998562708     Document Type: Article

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