TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Reyes, Andres Felipe
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
T1  - Overcoming discourse-linking difficulties in aphasia
BT  - the case of clitic pronouns
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - The present study aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact of discourse-linking deficits on the performance of individuals with aphasia by providing new data from a set of rarely investigated constructions: sentences in which a clitic pronoun coexists alongside with the full DP it agrees with. To do so, we use data of individuals with non-fluent aphasias who need to overcome the difficulties in direct object (accusative) clitic production. This results in overproduction of non-target clitic right dislocations (RDs) and clitic doubling (CD). Data from 15 individual’s native speakers of Spanish and Catalan are discussed. Data complement the results of previous investigations on discourse-linking effects in these languages, allowing the interpretation of results across constructions.
KW  - Clitic pronouns
KW  - discourse
KW  - aphasia
KW  - Spanish
KW  - Catalan
Y1  - 0207
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1308015
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 6
SP  - 459
EP  - 477
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rofes, Adria
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
A1  - Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
T1  - Conditional and future tense impairment in non-fluent aphasia
JF  - Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal
N2  - Background: Morphological errors of tense and agreement are salient in agrammatic aphasia. The PADILIH predicts impairments in discourse linking that translate to greater difficulties in referring to a past event time than to a future or a present event time. In Catalan, the Periphrastic conditional tense (e.g., if the man had had time, he would have...) refers to the past and the Simple conditional tense refers to the future (e.g., if the man had time, he would...). These two tenses refer to an event that may happen (irrealis).Aims: We fill in the gap of the conditional tense and provide further data to study contrasts in verb inflection for time reference. We predict that verb forms that refer to an irrealis past event (Periphrastic conditional) are more impaired than forms that refer to an irrealis future event (Simple conditional and Future). We also predict that there are no differences between verb forms that refer to an irrealis future event (Simple conditional and Future). We also assessed whether problems in time reference extend to individuals with non-fluent aphasia that are not typical agrammatic Broca aphasia.Methods & Procedures: A sentence completion task that included 60 sentences (20 per type) of equal length in a Conditional structure (if-sentences) was designed. We tested three sentence types: Periphrastic conditional, Simple conditional and Future. The task was administered to nine participants with non-fluent aphasia and nine age-matched non-brain-damaged participants.Outcomes & Results: The Control group scored at ceiling on the three sentence types. Participants with non-fluent aphasia were most impaired in the production of the Periphrastic conditional as compared with the Simple conditional and the Future.Conclusions: When irrealis event times are compared, past events are more impaired than future events. These results can be explained by a deficit in time reference as predicted by the PADILIH. Our data reveal that the predictions of the PADILIH also hold for non-fluent speakers who have been diagnosed with Transcortical motor aphasia.
KW  - Time reference
KW  - Conditional tense
KW  - Future tense
KW  - Realis
KW  - Irrealis
KW  - Non-fluent aphasia
KW  - Catalan
KW  - PADILIH
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2013.850650
SN  - 0268-7038
SN  - 1464-5041
VL  - 28
IS  - 1
SP  - 99
EP  - 115
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -