TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia
A1  - de Aguiar, Vania
A1  - Rofes, Adria
T1  - Non-fluent aphasia in Ibero-Romance: a review of morphosyntactic deficits
JF  - Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal
N2  - Background: Castilian-Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and European Portuguese are the most widely spoken languages of the Ibero-Romance group. An increasing number of authors have addressed the impact of aphasia on the morphosyntax of these varieties. However, accurate linguistic characterisations are scarce and the different sources of data have not been yet compiled.Aims: To stimulate state-of-the-art research, we provided a comprehensive summary of morphosyntactic aspects of Ibero-Romance and a review of how these are affected in non-fluent aphasia. The topics we dealt with are the use of verb argument structure and morphology, sentential negation and word order, definite articles, personal and reflexive pronouns, passives, topicalised constructions, questions, and relative clauses.Methods & Procedures: An exhaustive fieldwork and search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Medline records were performed to retrieve studies focused on morphosyntactic issues concerning the Ibero-Romance varieties. A total of 27 studies produced by 46 authors of varying background emerged. We did not review studies of category-specific deficits and aspects related to bilingual aphasia, although we assume that most speakers of Galician and Catalan are bilingual. Studies of spontaneous speech were included when no controlled experimental tasks were available.Outcomes & Results: The morphosyntactic commonalities of Ibero-Romance have been tackled from different theoretical perspectives. There exist asymmetries in findings which we explain with the use of different tasks (and task complexity) and individual differences between participants.Conclusions: Discourse-linking factors as well as deviations from the canonical pattern are recurrent answers to these asymmetries. A comprehensive theory of impairments in non-fluent aphasia integrating relevant aspects of both structural and processing accounts seems necessary.
KW  - non-fluent aphasia
KW  - morphosyntax
KW  - Ibero-Romance
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2014.958915
SN  - 0268-7038
SN  - 1464-5041
VL  - 29
IS  - 1
SP  - 101
EP  - 126
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bosch, Sina
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Accessing morphosyntax in L1 and L2 word recognition A priming study of inflected German adjectives
JF  - The mental lexicon
N2  - In fusional languages, inflectional affixes may encode multiple morphosyntactic features such as case, number, and gender. To determine how these features are accessed during both native (L1) and non-native (L2) word recognition, the present study compares the results from a masked visual priming experiment testing inflected adjectives of German to those of a previous overt (cross-modal) priming experiment on the same phenomenon. While for the L1 group both experiments produced converging results, a group of highly-proficient Russian L2 learners of German showed native-like modulations of repetition priming effects under overt, but not under masked priming conditions. These results indicate that not only affixes but also their morphosyntactic features are accessible during initial form-based lexical access, albeit only for L1 and not for L2 processing. We argue that this contrast is in line with other findings suggesting that non-native language processing is less influenced by structural information than the L1.
KW  - morphosyntax
KW  - inflection
KW  - masked priming
KW  - late bilinguals
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ml.11.1.02bos
SN  - 1871-1340
SN  - 1871-1375
VL  - 11
SP  - 26
EP  - 54
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -