Agrammatic patterns in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from tense, agreement, and aspect

REFERENCES

• Alexiadou , A. and Anagnostopoulou , E. 1998 . Parametrizing AGR: Word order, V-movement and EPP-checking . Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , 16 : 491 – 539 . doi: 10.1023/A:1006090432389
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Altmann , L. G. P. , Kempler , D. and Andersen , E. S. 2001 . Speech errors in Alzheimer's disease: Reevaluating morphosyntactic preservation . Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research , 44 : 1069 – 1082 . doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2001/085)
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Avrutin , S. 2000 . “ Comprehension of discourse-linked and non-discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics ” . In Language and the brain: Representation and processing , Edited by: Grodzinsky , Y. , Shapiro , L. and Swinney , D. 295 – 313 . San Diego , CA : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Avrutin , S. 2006 . “ Weak syntax ” . In Broca's region , Edited by: Amunts , K. and Grodzinsky , Y. 49 – 62 . New York : Oxford Press .
   Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. 1992 . Working memory . Science , 255 : 556 – 559 . doi: 10.1126/science.1736359
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. 1996 . Exploring the central executive . The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 49 : 5 – 28 . doi: 10.1080/713755608
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. D. , Baddeley , H. A. , Bucks , R. S. and Wilcock , G. K. 2001 . Attentional control in Alzheimer's disease . Brain , 124 : 1492 – 1508 . doi: 10.1093/brain/124.8.1492
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. D. , Bressi , S. , Della Sala , S. , Logie , R. and Spinnler , H. 1991 . The decline of working memory in Alzheimer's disease . Brain , 114 : 2521 – 2542 . doi: 10.1093/brain/114.6.2521
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. D. , Della Sala , S. and Spinnler , H. 1991 . The two-component hypothesis of memory deficit in Alzheimer's disease . Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology , 13 : 372 – 380 . doi: 10.1080/01688639108401051
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. D. and Hitch , G. 1974 . “ Working memory ” . In The psychology of learning and motivation , Edited by: Bower , G. A. 47 – 90 . New York , NY : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Baddeley , A. D. , Logie , R. , Bressi , S. , Della Sala , S. and Spinnler , H. 1986 . Dementia and working memory . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , 38A : 603 – 618 . doi: 10.1080/14640748608401616
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bastiaanse , R. 2008 . Production of verbs in base position by Dutch agrammatic speakers: Inflection versus finiteness . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 21 : 104 – 119 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.10.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bastiaanse , R. , Bamyaci , E. , Hsu , C-J. , Lee , J. , Yarbay Duman , T. and Thompson , C. K. 2011 . Time reference in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic study . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 24 : 652 – 673 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.07.001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker , J. T. and Overman , A. A. 2002 . “ The memory deficit in Alzheimer's disease ” . In The handbook of memory disorders , 2nd , Edited by: Baddeley , A. D. , Kopelman , M. D. and Wilson , B. A. 569 – 589 . Chichester : John Wiley & Sons .
   Google Scholar
• Cabeza , R. , Dolcos , F. , Graham , R. and Nyberg , L. 2002 . Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory . NeuroImage , 16 : 317 – 330 . doi: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1063
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Caplan , D. and Hildebrandt , N. 1988 . Disorders of syntactic comprehension , Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Caplan , D. and Waters , G. 1999 . Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension . Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 22 : 77 – 126 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chomsky , N. 1981 . Lectures on government and binding , Dordrecht : Foris .
   Google Scholar
• Chomsky , N. 1995 . The minimalist program , Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Chomsky , N. 2000 . “ Minimalist inquiries: The framework ” . In Step by step , Edited by: Martin , R. , Michaels , D. and Uriagereka , J. 89 – 155 . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Chomsky , N. 2001 . “ Derivation by phase ” . In Ken Hale: A life in language , Edited by: Kenstowicz , K. 1 – 52 . Cambridge , MA : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Clahsen , H. and Ali , M. 2009 . Formal features in aphasia: Tense, agreement, and mood in English agrammatism . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 22 : 436 – 450 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.02.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Collette , F. , Van der Linden , M. , Bechet , S. and Salmon , E. 1999 . Phonological loop and central executive functioning in Alzheimer's disease . Neuropsychologia , 37 : 905 – 918 . doi: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00148-1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Comrie , B. 1976 . Aspect , New York , NY : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Comrie , B. 1985 . Tense , New York , NY : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Diesfeldt , H. F. A. 1989 . Semantic impairment in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type . Aphasiology , 3 : 41 – 54 . doi: 10.1080/02687038908248975
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Druks , J. and Masterson , J. 2000 . An object and action naming battery , Hove : Psychology Press .
   Google Scholar
• Druks , J. , Masterson , J. , Kopelman , M. , Clare , L. , Rose , A. and Rai , G. 2006 . Is action naming better preserved (than object naming) in Alzheimer's disease and why should we ask? . Brain and Language , 98 : 332 – 340 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.003
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Economou , A. , Varlokosta , S. , Protopapas , A. and Kakavoulia , M. 2007 . Factors affecting the production of verb inflections in Greek aphasia . Brain and Language , 103 : 53 – 54 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.07.041
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Folstein , M. , Folstein , S. and McHugh , P. R. 1975 . Mini Mental State: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician . Journal of Psychiatric Research , 12 : 189 – 198 . doi: 10.1016/0022-3956(75)90026-6
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fountoulakis , K. N. , Tsolaki , M. , Chatzi , E. and Kazis , A. 1994 . Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). Application to Greek patients with dementia [in Greek] . Engefalos , 31 : 93 – 102 .
   Google Scholar
• Friederici , A. D. 1988 . Agrammatic comprehension: Picture of a computational mismatch . Aphasiology , 2 : 279 – 282 . doi: 10.1080/02687038808248924
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Friedmann , N. and Grodzinsky , Y. 1997 . Tense and agreement in agrammatic production: Pruning the syntactic tree . Brain and Language , 56 : 397 – 425 . doi: 10.1006/brln.1997.1795
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fyndanis, V. (2009). Functional categories in Greek agrammatism [in Greek]. Doctoral thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/search?p=Tense%2C&f=keyword (http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/search?p=Tense%2C&f=keyword)
   Google Scholar
• Fyndanis , V. , Meimaroglou , S. , Kitsa , O. , Kalitsounaki , K. and Andrikopoulou , K. 2012 . Adaptation of Druks and Masterson's (2000) Object and action naming battery for Greek , Manuscript in preparation .
   Google Scholar
• Fyndanis , V. , Varlokosta , S. and Tsapkini , K. 2010 . Exploring wh-questions in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 23 : 644 – 662 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.06.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fyndanis , V. , Varlokosta , S. and Tsapkini , K. 2012a . Agrammatic production: Interpretable features and selective impairment in verb inflection . Lingua , 122 : 1134 – 1147 . doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.05.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fyndanis , V. , Varlokosta , S. and Tsapkini , K. 2012b . (Morpho)syntactic comprehension in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek , Manuscript submitted for publication .
   Google Scholar
• Gabeza , R. , Dolcos , F. , Graham , R. and Nyberg , L. 2002 . Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory . NeuroImage , 16 : 317 – 330 . doi: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1063
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haarmann , H. J. and Kolk , H. H. J. 1991 . Syntactic priming in Broca's aphasia: Evidence for a slow activation . Aphasiology , 5 : 247 – 263 . doi: 10.1080/02687039108248527
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hagiwara , H. 1995 . The breakdown of functional categories and the economy of derivation . Brain and Language , 50 : 92 – 116 . doi: 10.1006/brln.1995.1041
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harciarek , M. and Kertesz , A. 2009 . Longitudinal study of single-word comprehension in semantic dementia: A comparison with primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer's disease . Aphasiology , 23 : 606 – 626 . doi: 10.1080/02687030801890891
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hodges , J. R. and Patterson , K. 1995 . Is semantic memory consistently impaired early in the course of Alzheimer's disease? Neuroanatomical and diagnostic implications . Neuropsychologia , 33 : 441 – 460 . doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(94)00127-B
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holton , D. , Mackridge , P. and Philippaki-Warburton , I. 1997 . Greek: A comprehensive grammar of the modern language , London/New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Joseph , L. , Wolfson , D. B. , Bélisle , P. , Brooks , J. O. III , Mortimer , J. A. Tinklenberg , J. R. 1999 . Taking account of between-patient variability when modeling decline in Alzheimer's disease . American Journal of Epidemiology , 149 : 963 – 973 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kaprinis , S. and Stavrakaki , S. 2007 . Morphological and syntactic abilities in patients with Alzheimer's disease . Brain and Language , 103 : 59 – 60 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.07.044
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kavé , G. and Levy , Y. 2003 . Sensitivity to gender, person and tense inflection by persons with Alzheimer's disease . Brain and Language , 87 : 267 – 277 . doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00106-8
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kensinger , E. A. , Shearer , D. K. , Locascio , J. J. , Growdon , J. H. and Corkin , S. 2003 . Working memory in mild Alzheimer's disease and early Parkinson's disease . Neuropsychology , 17 : 230 – 239 . doi: 10.1037/0894-4105.17.2.230
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim , M. and Thompson , C. K. 2004 . Verb deficits in Alzheimer's disease and agrammatism: Implications for lexical organisation . Brain and Language , 88 : 1 – 20 . doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00147-0
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kok , P. , van Doorn , A. and Kolk , H. 2007 . Inflection and computational load in agrammatic speech . Brain and Language , 102 : 273 – 283 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.001
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lapointe , S. 1985 . A theory of verb form use in the speech of agrammatic aphasics . Brain and Language , 24 : 100 – 155 . doi: 10.1016/0093-934X(85)90100-2
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lindeboom , J. and Weinstein , H. 2004 . Neuropsychology of cognitive ageing, minimal cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular cognitive impairment . European Journal of Pharmacology , 490 : 83 – 86 . doi: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2004.02.046
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacDonald , M. C. , Almor , A. , Henderson , V. W. , Kempler , D. and Andersen , E. S. 2001 . Assessing working memory and language comprehension in Alzheimer's disease . Brain and Language , 78 : 17 – 42 . doi: 10.1006/brln.2000.2436
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacDonald , M. C. and Christiansen , M. H. 2002 . Reassessing working memory: Comment on Just and Carpenter (1992) and Waters and Caplan (1996) . Psychological Review , 109 : 35 – 54 . doi: 10.1037//0033-295X.109.1.35
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manouilidou , C. and de Almeida , R. G. 2009 . “ Linguistic canonicity and verb deficits in Alzheimer's disease ” . In The fruits of empirical linguistics I: Process , Edited by: Featherston , S. and Winkler , S. 123 – 150 . Berlin : De Gruyter .
   Google Scholar
• Manouilidou , C. , de Almeida , R. G. , Schwartz , G. and Nair , N. P. V. 2009 . Thematic hierarchy violations in Alzheimer's disease: The case of psychological verbs . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 22 : 167 – 186 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.10.002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mätzig , S. , Druks , J. , Masterson , J. and Vigliocco , G. 2009 . Noun and verb differences in picture naming: Past studies and new evidence . Cortex , 45 : 738 – 758 . doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.10.003
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morris , R. G. and Baddeley , A. D. 1988 . Primary and working memory functioning in Alzheimer-type dementia . Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology , 10 : 279 – 296 . doi: 10.1080/01688638808408242
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nanousi , V. , Masterson , J. , Druks , J. and Atkinson , M. 2006 . Interpretable vs. uninterpretable features: Evidence from six Greek-speaking agrammatic patients . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 19 : 209 – 238 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2005.11.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perry , R. J. and Hodges , J. R. 1999 . Attention and executive deficits in Alzheimer's disease: A critical review . Brain , 122 : 383 – 404 . doi: 10.1093/brain/122.3.383
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Price , C. and Grossman , M. 2005 . Verb agreement during on-line sentence processing in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia . Brain and Language , 94 : 217 – 234 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.009
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rogers , S. L. and Friedman , R. B. 2008 . The underlying mechanisms of semantic memory loss in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia . Neuropsychologia , 46 : 12 – 21 . doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.010
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Salis , C. and Saddy , J. D. 2011 . Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia . Journal of Neurolinguistics , 24 : 156 – 162 . doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.02.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Simone , P. M. and Baylis , G. C. 1997 . Selective attention in a reaching task: Effect of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 23 : 595 – 608 . doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.3.595
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Small , J. A. , Kemper , S. and Lyons , K. 1997 . Sentence comprehension in Alzheimer's disease: Effects of grammatical complexity, speech rate, and repetition . Psychology and Aging , 12 : 3 – 11 . doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.1.3
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith , C. S. 1997 . The parameter of aspect , 2nd , Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Stavrakaki , S. and Kouvava , S. 2003 . Functional categories in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek . Brain and Language , 86 : 129 – 141 . doi: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00541-2
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tractenberg , R. E. and Pietrzak , R. H. 2011 . Intra-individual variability in Alzheimer's disease and cognitive aging: Definitions, context, and effect sizes . PLoS ONE , 6 : e16973 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016973
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tsimpli , I. M. and Dimitrakopoulou , M. 2007 . The Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from wh-interrogatives in second language acquisition . Second Language Research , 23 : 215 – 242 . doi: 10.1177/0267658307076546
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Varlokosta , S. , Valeonti , N. , Kakavoulia , M. , Lazaridou , M. , Economou , A. and Protopapas , A. 2006 . The breakdown of functional categories in Greek aphasia: Evidence from agreement, tense, and aspect . Aphasiology , 20 : 723 – 743 . doi: 10.1080/02687030500513703
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Warburton , I. P. 1973 . Modern Greek verb conjugation: Inflectional morphology in a transformational grammar . Lingua , 32 : 193 – 226 . doi: 10.1016/0024-3841(73)90042-9
   Google Scholar
• Waters , G. , Caplan , D. and Rochon , E. 1995 . Processing capacity and sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease . Cognitive Neuropsychology , 12 : 1 – 30 . doi: 10.1080/02643299508251990
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wenzlaff , M. and Clahsen , H. 2005 . Finiteness and verb-second in German agrammatism . Brain and Language , 92 : 33 – 44 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.05.006
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Whatmough , C. and Chertkow , H. 2002 . “ Category-specific recognition impairments in Alzheimer's disease ” . In Category specificity in brain and mind , Edited by: Forde , E. M. E. and Humphreys , G. W. 181 – 210 . New York , NY : Psychology Press .
   Google Scholar
• World Health Organisation . 1992 . International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, 10th revision (ICD-10) , Geneva : WHO .
   Google Scholar
• Yarbay Duman , T. and Bastiaanse , R. 2009 . Time reference through verb inflection in Turkish agrammatic aphasia . Brain and Language , 108 : 30 – 39 . doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.009
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar