The representation of lexical-syntactic information: Evidence from syntactic and lexical retrieval impairments in aphasia

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1103-1127

  Biran, Michal ^a,b   Friedmann, Naama ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Grammatical gender; Hebrew; Predicate argument structure (PAS); Syntactic lexicon

Indexed keywords

AGRAMMATISM; ANOMIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; GENDER; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEXICAL SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; MENTAL TASK; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHONETICS; PREDICATE ARGUMENT STRUCTURE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; APHASIA; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864614987     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.05.024     Document Type: Article

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