Selective impairment of knowledge underlying un- prefixation: Further evidence for the autonomy of grammatical semantics

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 3-5, 2002, Pages 403-432

  Kemmerer, David ^a,b   Wright, Saundra K ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specific deficits; Grammatical deficits; Modality specific deficits; Nouns; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036590243     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00035-5     Document Type: Article

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