TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
A1  - Sonntag, Katharina
T1  - Does morphology make the difference? : Agrammatic sentence comprehension in German
Y1  - 2003
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Swoboda-Moll, Maria
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers : Underspecification vs. hierarchy
N2  - The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether German agrammatic production data are compatible with the Tree-Pruning-Hypothesis (TPH; Friedmann & Grodzinsky, 1997). The theory predicts unidirectional patterns of dissociation in agrammatic production data with respect to Tense and Agreement. However, there was evidence of a double dissociation between Tense and Agreement in our data. The presence of a bidirectional dissociation is incompatible with any theory which assumes a hierarchical order between these categories such as the TPH or other versions thereof (such as Lee's, 2003 top-down hypothesis). It will be argued that the data can better be accounted for by relying on newer linguistic theories such as the Minimalist Program (MP, Chomsky, 2000), which does not assume a hierarchical order between independent syntactic Tense and Agreement nodes but treats them as different features (semantically interpretable vs. uninterpretable) under a single node. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
Y1  - 2005
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Swoboda-Moll, Maria
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - The left periphery in agrammatic clausal representations : evidence from German
N2  - Recently, neurolinguistic explanations informed by linguistic theory have been proposed to account for spontaneous and elicited agrammatic speech production. These are either formulated in terms of impaired representations or they refer to impaired processing. Both have in common that they assume severe disorders of question production due to vulnerability of the left periphery of sentence structures in the representational account, of verb movement in the processing account. We report the results of question elicitation and spontaneous speech analysis in eight chronic German agrammatic speakers. The results indicate that there is not one homogeneous agrammatic pattern, but that the data reveal double dissociations which cannot be accounted for by the unitary explanations of agrammatism which are presently available. An alternative explanation will be provided which-in contrast to the representational account not only refers to global hierarchically organized nodes but relies on linguistic differences within these nodes. The assumption that they can be differentially affected in agrammatism can account for the observed patterns. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Y1  - 2005
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Swoboda-Moll, Maria
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Tense and agreement in clausal representations : Evidence from German agrammatic aphasia
Y1  - 2004
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Weldlich, C.
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Focus in the left periphery : a cue to agrammatic sentence comprehension?
Y1  - 2005
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cholewa, Jürgen
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Further neurolinguistics evidence for morphological fractionation within the lexical system
Y1  - 1996
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - A linguist's view on progressive anomia: Evidence for Delbrück (1886) in modern neurolinguistic research
JF  - Cortex : a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behaviour
N2  - In his short paper of 1886, the neogrammarian linguist Delbruck sketches his views on normal language processing and their relevance for the interpretation of some of the symptoms of progressive anomic aphasia. In particular, he discusses proper name impairments, verb and abstract noun superiority and the predominance of semantically related errors. Furthermore, he suggests that part of speech, morphology and word order may be preserved in this condition. This historical document has been lost in oblivion but the original ideas and their relevance for contemporary discussions merit a revival.
KW  - neogrammarians
Y1  - 2006
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70421-0
SN  - 0010-9452
VL  - 42
SP  - 805
EP  - 810
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Milano
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Modality-specific anomias
Y1  - 1997
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Information processing models in cognitive psychology and neuropsychology
Y1  - 1994
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - De Bleser, Ria
T1  - Wernicke's 1903 case pure agraphia : an enigma for classical models of written language processing
Y1  - 1996
ER  -