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We investigated the person and number agreement performance of threeagrammatic aphasics in sentences and possessive nominal phrases. In the tasksthe patients had to supply 108 incomplete possessed nominal phrases and 108incomplete verbs with the right in ectional markers. Generally, the numberor person agreement feature was checked in the answers, resulting in agreementerrors. This finding suggests the diversity of the person and the number featurechecking in the course of syntactic derivation. On the basis of substitutionerrors we will argue that in agrammatism the selection of the replacing suxesis in uenced by two factors. One of them is syntactic and the other is a nonlinguisticone.
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Mészáros, É. Person and number agreement in agrammatism. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 48, 217–242 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015651607142
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