Title: Agrammatism in Japanese — A cross-language approach
Abstract: Evidence obtained from Japanese brain damaged patients (2 with agrammatism, 20 with Broca's aphasia and 20 with Wernicke's aphasia) is presented to evaluate and discuss some issues of theoretical interest concerning agrammatism. These issues include whether agrammatism represents a phonological deficit or a central syntactic impairment, whether it is distinct from paragrammatism, whether the omission of bound grammatical morphemes constitutes a universal feature of agrammatism and whether there is a site of brain lesion specifically associated with agrammatism and/or impairment of syntactic processing. The data obtained from our Japanese patients do not appear to be in accord with any of these propositions, indicating that agrammatism is a far more complex entity than can be accounted for by any single explanation provided thus far and that considerably more research is needed where a cross-language approach plays a vital role.
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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