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  - Avetisyan, Serine
A1  - Lago, Sol
A1  - Vasishth, Shravan
T1  - Does case marking affect agreement attraction in comprehension?
JF  - Journal of memory and language
N2  - Previous studies have suggested that distinctive case marking on noun phrases reduces attraction effects in production, i.e., the tendency to produce a verb that agrees with a nonsubject noun. An important open question is whether attraction effects are modulated by case information in sentence comprehension. To address this question, we conducted three attraction experiments in Armenian, a language with a rich and productive case system. The experiments showed clear attraction effects, and they also revealed an overall role of case marking such that participants showed faster response and reading times when the nouns in the sentence had different case. However, we found little indication that distinctive case marking modulated attraction effects. We present a theoretical proposal of how case and number information may be used differentially during agreement licensing in comprehension. More generally, this work sheds light on the nature of the retrieval cues deployed when completing morphosyntactic dependencies.
KW  - subject-verb agreement
KW  - attraction
KW  - Case
KW  - Eastern Armenian
KW  - cue-based
KW  - retrieval
KW  - comprehension
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104087
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 112
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -