TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adelt, Anne
A1  - Stadie, Nicole
A1  - Lassotta, Romy
A1  - Adani, Flavia
A1  - Burchert, Frank
T1  - Feature dissimilarities in the processing of German relative clauses in aphasia
JF  - Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience
N2  - The cross-linguistic finding of greater demands in processing object relatives as compared to subject relatives in individuals with aphasia and non-brain-damaged speakers has been explained within the Relativized Minimality approach. Based on this account, the asymmetry is attributed to an element intervening between the moved element and its extraction site in object relatives, but not in subject relatives. Moreover, it has been proposed that processing of object relatives is facilitated if the intervening and the moved elements differ in their internal feature structure. The present study investigates these predictions in German-speaking individuals with aphasia and a group of control participants by combining the visual world eye-tracking methodology with an auditory referent identification task. Our results provide support for the Relativized Minimality approach. Particularly, the degree of featural distinctness was shown to modulate the occurrence of the effects in aphasia. We claim that, due to reduced processing capacities, individuals with aphasia need a higher degree of featural dissimilarity to distinguish the moved from the intervening element in object relatives to overcome their syntactic deficit. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - Relative clauses
KW  - Relativized Minimality
KW  - Sentence processing
KW  - Morpho-syntactic features
KW  - Eye tracking
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2017.01.002
SN  - 0911-6044
VL  - 44
SP  - 17
EP  - 37
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adelt, Anne
A1  - Hanne, Sandra
A1  - Stadie, Nicole
T1  - Treatment of sentence comprehension and production in aphasia
BT  - is there cross-modal generalisation?
JF  - Neuropsychological rehabilitation
N2  - Exploring generalisation following treatment of language deficits in aphasia can provide insights into the functional relation of the cognitive processing systems involved. In the present study, we first review treatment outcomes of interventions targeting sentence processing deficits and, second report a treatment study examining the occurrence of practice effects and generalisation in sentence comprehension and production. In order to explore the potential linkage between processing systems involved in comprehending and producing sentences, we investigated whether improvements generalise within (i.e., uni-modal generalisation in comprehension or in production) and/or across modalities (i.e., cross-modal generalisation from comprehension to production or vice versa). Two individuals with aphasia displaying co-occurring deficits in sentence comprehension and production were trained on complex, non-canonical sentences in both modalities. Two evidence-based treatment protocols were applied in a crossover intervention study with sequence of treatment phases being randomly allocated. Both participants benefited significantly from treatment, leading to uni-modal generalisation in both comprehension and production. However, cross-modal generalisation did not occur. The magnitude of uni-modal generalisation in sentence production was related to participants’ sentence comprehension performance prior to treatment. These findings support the assumption of modality-specific sub-systems for sentence comprehension and production, being linked uni-directionally from comprehension to production.
KW  - Sentence comprehension
KW  - sentence production
KW  - cross-modal generalisation
KW  - aphasia treatment
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2016.1213176
SN  - 0960-2011
SN  - 1464-0694
VL  - 28
IS  - 6
SP  - 937
EP  - 965
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adelt, Anne
A1  - Hanne, Sandra
A1  - Burchert, Frank
T1  - Verarbeitung von deutschen kanonischen und nicht-kanonischen Passivsätzen bei Aphasie : eine Blickbewegungsuntersuchung
Y1  - 2013
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fritzsche, Tom
A1  - Meyer, Corinna B.
A1  - Adelt, Anne
A1  - Roß, Jennifer
T1  - Vorwort
Y1  - 2013
ER  -