Comprehension and production of movement-derived sentences by Russian speakers with agrammatic aphasia

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-65

  Friedmann, Naama ^a   Reznick, Julia ^a   Dolinski Nuger, Dina ^a   Soboleva, Katya ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agrammatism; Aphasia; Morphology; Russian; Verb movement; Wh movement

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 70350015363     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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