TY  - GEN
A1  - Arslan, Seçkin
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - Comprehension of wh-questions in Turkish–German bilinguals with aphasia
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The aim of our study was to examine the extent to which linguistic
approaches to sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia can
account for differential impairment patterns in the comprehension
of wh-questions in bilingual persons with aphasia (PWA). We investi-
gated the comprehension of subject and object wh-questions in both
Turkish, a wh-in-situ language, and German, a wh-fronting language,
in two bilingual PWA using a sentence-to-picture matching task. Both
PWA showed differential impairment patterns in their two languages.
SK, an early bilingual PWA, had particular difficulty comprehending
subject which-questions in Turkish but performed normal across all
conditions in German. CT, a late bilingual PWA, performed more
poorly for object which-questions in German than in all other condi-
tions, whilst in Turkish his accuracy was at chance level across all
conditions. We conclude that the observed patterns of selective
cross-linguistic impairments cannot solely be attributed either to
difficulty with wh-movement or to problems with the integration of
discourse-level information. Instead our results suggest that differ-
ences between our PWA’s individual bilingualism profiles (e.g. onset
of bilingualism, premorbid language dominance) considerably
affected the nature and extent of their impairments.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 462 
KW  - bilingual aphasia
KW  - wh- questions
KW  - Turkish-German bilingualism
KW  - wh-in-situ
KW  - wh- movement
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41281
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412813
IS  - 462
ER  -