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Cross-Linguistic Study of the Agrammatic Impairment in Verb Inflection: Icelandic, Hindi, and Finnish Cases

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Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia

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Abstract

Aspects of verb production in the spontaneous narrative speech of agrammatic aphasics in Icelandic, Hindi, and Finnish are examined in this chapter. Analysis of the pattern of results is framed in linguistic terms capturing morphosyntactic distinctions. The goal of this cross-language analysis is to detail how a deficit in the production of the grammatical morphemes of verb phrases, which has been described as one of the primary features of agrammatism in English, reflects aspects of the Language System.

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  1. Service de Neurologie, INSERM U.230, 31059, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Jean-Luc Nespoulous

  2. Department of French, University of New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

    Pierre Villiard

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Lorch, M.P. (1990). Cross-Linguistic Study of the Agrammatic Impairment in Verb Inflection: Icelandic, Hindi, and Finnish Cases. In: Nespoulous, JL., Villiard, P. (eds) Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8969-9_9

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