Automatic processing of wh- and NP-movement in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 563-583

  Dickey, Michael Walsh ^a,b   Thompson, Cynthia K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Eyetracking; Filler gap dependencies; NP movement; Sentence comprehension; wh movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 69249216341     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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