Eye-tracking the effect of word order in sentence comprehension in aphasia
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Miren ArantzetaORCiD, Roelien BastiaanseORCiDGND, Frank BurchertORCiDGND, Martijn Benjamin WielingORCiDGND, Maite Martinez-Zabaleta, Itziar LakaORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1344715 |
ISSN: | 2327-3798 |
ISSN: | 2327-3801 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Language, cognition and neuroscience |
Untertitel (Englisch): | evidence from Basque, a free word order ergative language |
Verlag: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Verlagsort: | Abingdon |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 06.07.2017 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.09.2022 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Aphasia; Basque; comprehension; eye-tracking; sentence processing |
Band: | 32 |
Ausgabe: | 10 |
Seitenanzahl: | 24 |
Erste Seite: | 1320 |
Letzte Seite: | 1343 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |