Broca’s aphasics with agrammatism suffer from a severe deficit in their ability to handle verbs. Until the early eighties, the accepted account was that verb inflections are omitted in agrammatism. This was probably due to the fact that in English, patients produce bare verbs. In 1984, Grodzinsky looked at cross-linguistic data, and showed that the appropriate description of the data is substit...

We describe the patterns of omissions (and substitutions) of freestanding grammatical morphemes and the patterns of substitutions of bound grammatical morphemes in 20 so-called agrammatic patients. Extreme variation was observed in the patterns of omissions and substitutions of grammatical morphemes, both in terms of the distribution of errors for different grammatical morphemes as well as in t...

The purpose of this paper is to consider, in one particular respect, the bearing on linguistic theory of the study of aphasia. We will examine the inflectional deficits reported in the literature on aphasia and see how they can be accommodated in contemporary minimalism, holding minimal impairment as a basic assumption. The association between agreement (to which inflection relates) and movemen...

The symptoms of aphasia will vary depending on the type aphasia. This study examined to determine Qualitative data collection involved observation and documentation. investigation found that main character's Broca's is most dominant. There are 5 7 happened in Lotje's case. common symptom non-fluent (55 data), followed by naming (15 agrammatism (10 phonological literal paraphasia verbal paraphas...

A new characterization of agrammatism is suggested, based on new data from Hebrew speaking agrammatic aphasics, and a reexamination of data from Russian and Italian. This characterization is formed in relation to linguistic levels of representation. First, the description oJr agrammatism as omission of closed-clttss items is challenged on the basis of the data, and a new description is suggeste...

background: cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and wh-questions. to assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with no...

Introduction: Agrammatism in Broca’s aphasia is a language disorder that is characterized by a selective syntactic deficit, often in comprehension as well as in speech production. According to the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (TDH, Grodzinsky, 1990, 1995, 2000), the deficit in comprehension in agrammatic aphasia is attributed to impaired representation of structures with non-canonical word order d...