Abstract
Cognitive-communication disorder is a type of language alteration generally associated with a traumatic brain injury, but could also be a sequelae from a disease. There is a latent possibility of establishing a connection between the ongoing epidemic language alterations sequelae with those reorganization in language after a head trauma that includes modifications in syntax production process.
From a set of syntax indices previously elaborated to study language development, we propose a grammar-based analysis of such indices allowing a depiction in terms of a triangle-segmented polygon. A finding of the analysis is that the suggested context-free grammar gives the resources to have a suitable representation of the construction of the syntax production in individuals after a traumatic brain injury, in a post-recovery stage. The produced maps could serve to interpret how rules, when demanding more complexity, progress in contrast with a negative sample.
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Roldán-Palacios, M., López-López, A. (2022). Understanding Syntax Structure of Language After a Head Injury. In: Mahmud, M., He, J., Vassanelli, S., van Zundert, A., Zhong, N. (eds) Brain Informatics. BI 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13406. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15037-1_24
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