447
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Frequency, activation, and the production of verb inflection in agrammatic aphasia

Pages 1283-1303 | Received 15 Apr 2015, Accepted 01 Oct 2015, Published online: 04 Nov 2015

References

  • Abuom, T. O., & Bastiaanse, R. (2012). Characteristics of Swahili–English bilingual agrammatic spontaneous speech and the consequences for understanding agrammatic aphasia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 25, 276–293. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.02.003
  • Allum, P. H., & Wheeldon, L. (2009). Scope of lexical access in spoken sentence production: Implications for the conceptual–syntactic interface. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1240–1255. doi:10.1037/a0016367
  • Allum, P. H., & Wheeldon, L. R. (2007). Planning scope in spoken sentence production: The role of grammatical units. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 791–810. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.33.4.791
  • Arabatzi, M., & Edwards, S. (2002). Tense and syntactic processes in agrammatic speech. Brain and Language, 80, 314–327. doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2591
  • Arnon, I., & Clark, E. V. (2011). Why brush your teeth is better than teeth–children’s word production is facilitated in familiar sentence-frames. Language Learning and Development, 7, 107–129. doi:10.1080/15475441.2010.505489
  • Avrutin, S. (2000). Comprehension of discourse-linked and non-discourse linked questions by children and Broca’s aphasics. In Y. Grodzinsky, L. Shapiro, & D. Swinney (Eds.), Language and the brain (pp. 295–313). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
  • Avrutin, S. (2006). Weak syntax. In Y. Grodzinsky & K. Amunts (Eds.), Broca’s region (pp. 49–62). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Barlow, M. (2014). A situated theory of agreement. New York, NY: Routledge.
  • 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
  • Bastiaanse, R., Bamyaci, E., Hsu, C.-J., Lee, J., Duman, T. Y., & 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
  • Bastiaanse, R., & van Zonneveld, R. (1998). On the relation between verb inflection and verb position in Dutch agrammatic aphasics. Brain and Language, 64, 165–181. doi:10.1006/brln.1998.1972
  • Bates, E., & Wulfeck, B. (1989). Crosslinguistic studies of aphasia. In B. MacWhinney & E. Bates (Eds.), The crosslinguistic study of sentence processing (pp. 328–371). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bates, E., Wulfeck, B., & MacWhinney, B. (1991). Cross-linguistic research in aphasia: An overview. Brain and Language, 41, 123–148. doi:10.1016/0093-934X(91)90149-U
  • Benedet, M. J., Christiansen, J. A., & Goodglass, H. (1998). A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphology in Spanish-and English-speaking agrammatic patients. Cortex, 34, 309–336. doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70758-5
  • Bever, T. G., & McElree, B. (1988). Empty categories access their antecedents during comprehension. Linguistic Inquiry, 19, 35–43. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4178573
  • Bock, K. (1995). Sentence production: From mind to mouth. In J. L. Miller & E. D. Eimas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and cognition: Vol. 11: Speech, language, and communication (pp. 181–216). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
  • Bock, K., Carreiras, M., & Meseguer, E. (2012). Number meaning and number grammar in English and Spanish. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 17–37. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2011.07.008
  • Bock, K., Cutler, A., Eberhard, K. M., Butterfield, S., Cutting, J. C., & Humphreys, K. R. (2006). Number agreement in British and American English: Disagreeing to agree collectively. Language, 82, 64–113. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0011
  • Bock, K., & Cutting, J. C. (1992). Regulating mental energy: Performance units in language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 99–127. doi:10.1016/0749-596X(92)90007-K
  • Bock, K., & Levelt, W. (1994). Language production: Grammatical encoding. In M. A. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of psycholinguistics (pp. 945–985). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
  • Bock, K., & Miller, C. A. (1991). Broken agreement. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 45–93. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(91)90003-7
  • Boland, J. E., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Garnsey, S. M. (1995). Verb argument structure in parsing and interpretation: Evidence from wh-questions. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 774–806. doi:10.1006/jmla.1995.1034
  • Bos, L. S., Dragoy, O., Stowe, L. A., & Bastiaanse, R. (2013). Time reference teased apart from tense: Thinking beyond the present. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 26, 283–297. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.10.001
  • Burchert, F., Swoboda-Moll, M., & De Bleser, R. (2005). Tense and agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers: Underspecification vs. hierarchy. Brain and Language, 94, 188–199. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.006
  • Cai, Z. G., Pickering, M. J., Wang, R., & Branigan, H. P. (2015). It is there whether you hear it or not: Syntactic representation of missing arguments. Cognition, 136, 255–267. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.017
  • Caramazza, A., Costa, A., Miozzo, M., & Bi, Y. (2001). The specific-word frequency effect: Implications for the representation of homophones in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 27, 1430–1450. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.27.6.1430
  • Caramazza, A., & Zurif, E. B. (1976). Dissociation of algorithmic and heuristic processes in language comprehension: Evidence from aphasia. Brain and Language, 3, 572–582. doi:10.1016/0093-934X(76)90048-1
  • Centeno, J. G., & Cairns, H. S. (2010). Assessing frequency effects on verb inflection use by Spanish-speaking individuals with agrammatism: Theoretical and clinical implications. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 35–46. doi:10.3109/17549500903141183
  • Chomsky, N. (1981). Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris.
  • Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. (Current Studies in Linguistics 28.) Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Clahsen, H., & 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
  • Clifton, C., Jr, & Frazier, L. (1989). Comprehending sentences with long distance dependencies. In G. Carlson & M. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Linguistic structure in language processing (pp. 273–317). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Corbett, G. G. (2006). Agreement (Vol. 109). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dell, G. S. (1986). A spreading-activation theory of retrieval in sentence production. Psychological Review, 93, 283–321. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.93.3.283
  • Dell, G. S., Oppenheim, G. M., & Kittredge, A. K. (2008). Saying the right word at the right time: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic interference in sentence production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 583–608. doi:10.1080/01690960801920735
  • Dickey, M. W., & Thompson, C. K. (2009). Automatic processing of wh- and NP-movement in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from eyetracking. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 563–583. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.06.004
  • Duffield, C. J. (2013). Beyond the subject: The interaction of syntax and semantics in the production of English verb agreement (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University Of Colorado Boulder, Colorado.
  • Eberhard, K. M. (1999). The accessibility of conceptual number to the processes of subject–verb agreement in English. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 560–578. doi:10.1006/jmla.1999.2662
  • Eberhard, K. M., Cutting, J. C., & Bock, K. (2005). Making syntax of sense: Number agreement in sentence production. Psychological Review, 112, 531–559. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.112.3.531
  • Ellis, N. C. (2002). Frequency effects in language processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 143–188. doi:10.1017/S0272263102002024
  • Faroqi-Shah, Y. (2013). Selective treatment of regular versus irregular verbs in agrammatic aphasia: Efficacy data. Aphasiology, 27, 678–705. doi:10.1080/02687038.2012.751577
  • Ferreira, F. (1991). Effects of length and syntactic complexity on initiation times for prepared utterances. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 210–233. doi:10.1016/0749-596X(91)90004-4
  • Franck, J., Vigliocco, G., & Nicol, J. (2002). Subject-verb agreement errors in French and English: The role of syntactic hierarchy. Language and Cognitive Processes, 17, 371–404. doi:10.1080/01690960143000254
  • Friedmann, N. A. (2001). Agrammatism and the psychological reality of the syntactic tree. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 30, 71–90. doi:10.1023/A:1005256224207
  • Friedmann, N. A., & 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
  • Gahl, S., & Garnsey, S. M. (2004). Knowledge of grammar, knowledge of usage: Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation. Language, 80, 748–775. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4489780
  • Gahl, S., & Garnsey, S. M. (2006). Knowledge of grammar includes knowledge of syntactic probabilities. Language, 82, 405–410. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0089
  • Garrett, M. F. (1975). The analysis of sentence production. In G. H. Bower (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 9, pp. 133–177). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Garrett, M. F. (1980). Levels of processing in sentence production. In B. Butterworth (Ed.), Language production: Vol. 1. Speech and talk (pp. 177–220). New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Garrett, M. F. (1988). Processes in language production. In F. J. Newmeyer (Ed.), Linguistics: The Cambridge survey: Vol 3. Language – Psychological and biological aspects (pp. 69–96). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Gibson, E. (1998). Linguistic complexity: Locality of syntactic dependencies. Cognition, 6, 1–76. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00034-1
  • Gillespie, M., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2011). Hierarchy and scope of planning in subject–verb agreement production. Cognition, 118, 377–397. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.008
  • Gordon, J. K., & Dell, G. S. (2003). Learning to divide the labor: An account of deficits in light and heavy verb production. Cognitive Science, 27, 1–40. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2701_1
  • Gregory, M. L., Raymond, W. D., Bell, A., Fosler-Lussier, E., & Jurafsky, D. (1999). The effects of collocational strength and contextual predictability in lexical production. Chicago Linguistic Society, 35, 151–166.
  • Haarmann, H. J., & Kolk, H. H. (1994). On-line sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations in Broca′ s aphasics: The role of syntactic complexity and time. Brain and Language, 46, 493–516. doi:10.1006/brln.1994.1028
  • Hartsuiker, R. J., Kolk, H. H., & Huinck, W. J. (1999). Agrammatic production of subject–verb agreement: The effect of conceptual number. Brain and Language, 69, 119–160. doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2059
  • Hartsuiker, R. J., Kolk, H. H. J., & Huiskamp, P. (1999). Priming word order in sentence production. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Section A, 52, 129–147. doi:10.1080/713755798
  • Humphreys, K. R., & Bock, K. (2005). Notional number agreement in English. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 689–695. doi:10.3758/BF03196759
  • Jarema, G., & Nespoulous, J. L. (1984). Infinitif et flexions verbales chez l’aphasique” agrammatique”. La Linguistique, 99–113. doi:10.2307/30248494
  • Jescheniak, J. D., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. (2003). Specific-word frequency is not all that counts in speech production: Comments on Caramazza, Costa, et al. (2001) and new experimental data. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 29, 432–438. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.29.3.432
  • Joanisse, M. F., & Seidenberg, M. S. (1999). Impairments in verb morphology after brain injury: A connectionist model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 7592–7597. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.13.7592
  • Jonkers, R., & de Bruin, A. (2009). Tense processing in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia. Aphasiology, 23, 1252–1265. doi:10.1080/02687030802289192
  • Jurafsky, D., Bell, A., Gregory, M., & Raymond, W. D. (2001). Probabilistic relations between words: Evidence from reduction in lexical production. In J. L. Bybee & P. J. Hopper (Eds.), Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure (pp. 229–254). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.
  • Kempen, G. (2009). Clausal coordination and coordinative ellipsis in a model of the speaker. Linguistics, 47, 653–696. doi:10.1515/LING.2009.022
  • Kok, P., Kolk, H., & Haverkort, M. (2006). Agrammatic sentence production: Is verb second impaired in Dutch? Brain and Language, 96, 243–254. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.05.005
  • Kok, P., van Doorn, A., & Kolk, H. (2007). Inflection and computational load in agrammatic speech. Brain and Language, 102, 273–283. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.03.001
  • Lee, M., & Thompson, C. K. (2004). Agrammatic aphasic production and comprehension of unaccusative verbs in sentence contexts. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 17, 315–330. doi:10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00062-9
  • Lehečková, H. (2001). Manifestation of aphasic symptoms in Czech. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 14, 179–208. doi:10.1016/S0911-6044(01)00014-8
  • Levelt, W., & Maassen, B. (1981). Lexical search and order of mention in sentence production. In W. Klein & W. Levelt (Eds.), Crossing the boundaries in linguistics (pp. 221–252). Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-8453-0_12.
  • Levelt, W. M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Libben, G. (1990). Morphological representations and morphological deficits in aphasia. In J.-L. Nespoulous & P. Villard (Eds.), Morphology, phonology, and aphasia (pp. 20–31). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.
  • MacWhinney, B., & Bates, E. (1989). The crosslinguistic study of sentence processing. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Maury, C. (1974). L’expression des relations temporelles dans l’agrammatisme. La Linguistique, 15, 69–83. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30248377
  • McClelland, J. L., & Patterson, K. (2002). Rules or connections in past-tense inflections: What does the evidence rule out? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 465–472. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01993-9
  • Menn, L., & Duffield, C. J. (2014). Looking for a ‘gold standard’ to measure language complexity: What psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics can (and cannot) offer to formal linguistics. In F. J. Newmeyer & L. B. Preston (Eds.), Measuring grammatical complexity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Menn, L., & Obler, L. K. (Eds.). (1990). Agrammatic aphasia: A cross-language narrative sourcebook (pp. 1–3)). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing.
  • Menn, L., Reilly, K. F., Hayashi, M., Kamio, A., Fujita, I., & Sasanuma, S. (1998). The interaction of preserved pragmatics and impaired syntax in Japanese and English aphasic speech. Brain and Language, 61, 183–225. doi:10.1006/brln.1997.1838
  • Nanousi, V., Masterson, J., Druks, J., & 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
  • Pickering, M. J., & Branigan, H. P. (1998). The representation of verbs: Evidence from syntactic priming in language production. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 633–651. doi:10.1006/jmla.1998.2592
  • Pinker, S., & Ullman, M. T. (2002). The past and future of the past tense. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 456–463. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01990-3
  • Pollard, C., & Sag, I. A. (1994). Head-driven phrase structure grammar. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Protopapas, A., Cheimariou, S., Economou, A., Kakavoulia, M., & Varlokosta, S. (2014). Functional categories related to verb inflection are not differentially impaired in Greek aphasia. Language and Cognition, 1–18. doi:10.1017/langcog.2014.46
  • Saffran, E. M., Schwartz, M. F., & Linebarger, M. C. (1998). Semantic influences on thematic role assignment: Evidence from normals and aphasics. Brain and Language, 62, 255–297. doi:10.1006/brln.1997.1918
  • Sag, I. A. (2010). English filler-gap constructions. Language, 86, 486–545. doi:10.1353/lan.2010.0002
  • Solomon, E. S., & Pearlmutter, N. J. (2004). Semantic integration and syntactic planning in language production. Cognitive Psychology, 49, 1–46. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2003.10.001
  • Speer, P., & Wilshire, C. E. (2013). What’s in a sentence? The crucial role of lexical content in sentence production in nonfluent aphasia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 30, 507–543. doi:10.1080/02643294.2013.876398
  • St. John, M. F., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (1998). Learning and losing syntax: Practice makes perfect and frequency builds fortitude. In A. F. Healy & L. E. Bourne, Jr. (Eds.), Foreign language learning: Psycholinguistic studies of training and retention (pp. 231–255). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Stavrakaki, S., & Kouvava, S. (2003). Functional categories in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek. Brain and Language, 86, 129–141. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00541-2
  • Varlokosta, S., Valeonti, N., Kakavoulia, M., Lazaridou, M., Economou, A., & 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
  • Vigliocco, G., Butterworth, B., & Garrett, M. F. (1996). Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: Differences in the role of conceptual constraints. Cognition, 61, 261–298. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00713-5
  • Vigliocco, G., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (2002). The interplay of meaning, sound, and syntax in sentence production. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 442–472. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.128.3.442
  • Vigliocco, G., & Nicol, J. (1998). Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production: Is proximity concord syntactic or linear? Cognition, 68, B13–B29. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(98)00041-9
  • Weinrich, M., Boser, K. I., & McCall, D. (1999). Representation of linguistic rules in the brain: Evidence from training an aphasic patient to produce past tense verb morphology. Brain and Language, 70, 144–158. doi:10.1006/brln.1999.2141
  • Wenzlaff, M., & Clahsen, H. (2004). Tense and agreement in German agrammatism. Brain and Language, 89, 57–68. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00298-0
  • Wenzlaff, M., & Clahsen, H. (2005). Finiteness and verb-second in German agrammatism. Brain and Language, 92, 33–44. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.05.006
  • Wheeldon, L., Ohlson, N., Ashby, A., & Gator, S. (2013). Lexical availability and grammatical encoding scope during spoken sentence production. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1653–1673. doi:10.1080/17470218.2012.754913

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.