Slower-than-normal syntactic processing in agrammatic Broca's aphasia: Evidence from Dutch

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-137

  Burkhardt, Petra ^a,c   Avrutin, Sergey ^b   Piñango, Maria M ^c   Ruigendijk, Esther ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Dutch; Online sentence comprehension; Processing limitation; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 38949187294     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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