TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arantzeta, Miren
A1  - Bastiaanse, Roelien
A1  - Burchert, Frank
A1  - Wieling, Martijn Benjamin
A1  - Martinez-Zabaleta, Maite
A1  - Laka, Itziar
T1  - Eye-tracking the effect of word order in sentence comprehension in aphasia
BT  - evidence from Basque, a free word order ergative language
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - Agrammatic speakers of languages with overt grammatical case show impaired use of the morphological cues to establish theta-role relations in sentences presented in non-canonical word orders. We analysed the effect of word order on the sentence comprehension of aphasic speakers of Basque, an ergative, free word order and head-final (SOV) language. Ergative languages such as Basque establish a one-to-one mapping of the thematic role and the case marker. We collected behavioural and gaze-fixation data while agrammatic speakers performed a picture-matching task with auditorily presented sentences with different word orders. We found that people with aphasia (PWA) had difficulties in assigning theta-roles in Theme-Agent order. This result is in line with processing accounts. Contrary to previous findings, our data do not suggest a systematic delay in the integration of morphological information in the PWA group, but strong reliance on the ergative case morphology and difficulties assigning thematic roles into the determiner phrases.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - comprehension
KW  - Basque
KW  - sentence processing
KW  - eye-tracking
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1344715
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 32
IS  - 10
SP  - 1320
EP  - 1343
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -