TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arslan, Seçkin
A1  - Bamyaci, Elif
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
T1  - A characterization of verb use in Turkish agrammatic narrative speech
JF  - Philosophische Rundschau
N2  - This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n = 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n = 10). To elicit narrative-speech samples, personal interviews and storytelling tasks were conducted. Turkish has a large and regular verb inflection paradigm where verbs are inflected for evidentiality (i.e. direct versus indirect evidence available to the speaker). Particularly, we explored the general characteristics of the speech samples (e.g. utterance length) and the uses of lexical, finite and non-finite verbs and direct and indirect evidentials. The results show that speech rate is slow, verbs per utterance are lower than normal and the verb diversity is reduced in the agrammatic speakers. Verb inflection is relatively intact; however, a trade-off pattern between inflection for direct evidentials and verb diversity is found. The implications of the data are discussed in connection with narrative-speech production studies on other languages.
KW  - Agrammatism
KW  - discourse-linking
KW  - finiteness
KW  - evidentiality
KW  - narrative speech
KW  - Turkish
KW  - verbs
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3109/02699206.2016.1144224
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 30
SP  - 449
EP  - 469
PB  - J. C. B. Mohr
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -