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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fyndanis, Valantis
A1  - Lind, Marianne
A1  - Varlokosta, Spyridoula
A1  - Kambanaros, Maria
A1  - Soroli, Efstathia
A1  - Ceder, Klaudia
A1  - Grohmann, Kleanthes K.
A1  - Rofes, Adrià
A1  - Simonsen, Hanne Gram
A1  - Bjekić, Jovana
A1  - Gavarró, Anna
A1  - Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač
A1  - Martínez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - Munarriz, Amaia
A1  - Pourquie, Marie
A1  - Vuksanović, Jasmina
A1  - Zakariás, Lilla
A1  - Howard, David
T1  - Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test
BT  - challenges and solutions
JF  - Clinical linguistics & phonetics
N2  - Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.
KW  - Aphasia
KW  - assessment
KW  - Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
KW  - cross-linguistic adaptations
KW  - outcome measures
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299
SN  - 0269-9206
SN  - 1464-5076
VL  - 31
IS  - 7-9
SP  - 697
EP  - 710
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -