1st Edition
Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism A neurolinguistic approach
By Judit Druks
Copyright 2017
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism provides an in-depth review of the previous five decades of research on agrammatism focusing specifically on work which has been informed by linguistic theory. The final chapters reflect the recent turning point in the conceptualization of the underlying causes of the impairments agrammatic individuals present with.
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Chapter 1 Agrammatic Broca’s aphasia: an introduction
Chapter 2 The grammatical morphemes deficit
Chapter 3 Verbs and their impairments in sentences and single words
Chapter 4 The tree pruning hypothesis and beyond
Chapter 5 The saga of the trace deletion hypothesis
Chapter 6 Beyond the TDH and TPH: Generalized Minimality
Chapter 7 Agrammatism and discourse
Chapter 8 Time based accounts of agrammatic production and comprehension
Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
Biography
Judit Druks is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL
