Predicting the sources of impaired wh-question comprehension in non-fluent aphasia
- This study investigates the comprehension of wh-questions in individuals with aphasia (IWA) speaking Turkish, a non-wh-movement language, and German, a wh-movement language. We examined six German-speaking and 11 Turkish-speaking IWA using picture-pointing tasks. Findings from our experiments show that the Turkish IWA responded more accurately to both object who and object which questions than to subject questions, while the German IWA performed better for subject which questions than in all other conditions. Using random forest models, a machine learning technique used in tree-structured classification, on the individual data revealed that both the Turkish and German IWA’s response accuracy is largely predicted by the presence of overt and unambiguous case marking. We discuss our results with regard to different theoretical approaches to the comprehension of wh-questions in aphasia.
Author details: | Seçkin ArslanORCiDGND, Eren Gür, Claudia FelserORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1394284 |
ISSN: | 0264-3294 |
ISSN: | 1464-0627 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29140189 |
Title of parent work (English): | Cognitive neuropsychology |
Subtitle (English): | a cross-linguistic machine learning study on Turkish and German |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2017/11/15 |
Publication year: | 2017 |
Release date: | 2022/09/29 |
Tag: | Non-fluent aphasia; random forest algorithm; sentence comprehension; wh-in-situ; wh-movement; wh-questions |
Volume: | 34 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
First page: | 312 |
Last Page: | 331 |
Organizational units: | Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM) |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 464 |