Single‐word semantic judgements in semantic dementia: Do phonology and grammatical class count?
| Autor: | Vanessa Troiani, Jamie Reilly, Murray Grossman, Katy Cross |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Linguistics and Language Semantic dementia Phonology LPN and LVN medicine.disease Syntax Minimal pair Language and Linguistics Linguistics Neurology Otorhinolaryngology Noun Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Semantic memory Neurology (clinical) Psychology Word (group theory) |
| Zdroj: | Aphasiology. 21:558-569 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5041 0268-7038 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02687030701191986 |
| Popis: | Background: Listeners make active use of phonological regularities such as word length to facilitate higher‐level syntactic and semantic processing. For example, nouns are longer than verbs, and abstract words are longer than concrete words. Patients with semantic dementia (SD) experience conceptual loss with preserved syntax and phonology. The extent to which patients with SD exploit phonological regularities to support language processing remains unclear. Aims: We examined the ability of patients with SD (1) to perceive subtle acoustic–phonetic distinctions in English, and (2) to bootstrap their accuracy of lexical‐semantic and syntactic judgements from regularities in the phonological forms of English nouns and verbs. Methods and Procedures: Four patients with SD made minimal pair judgements (same/different) for auditorily presented stimuli selectively varied by voice, place, or manner of the initial consonant (e.g., pa –ba). In Experiment 2 patients made forced‐choice semantic judgements (abstract or ... |
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