Does morphology make the difference? Agrammatic sentence comprehension in German

Brain and Language

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 323-342

  Burchert, Frank ^a   De Bleser, Ria ^a   Sonntag, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active; Agrammatism; Canonical; Case; Comprehension; German; Non canonical; Number agreement; Passive; TDH

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0142154156     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00132-9     Document Type: Article

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