Processing verbal morphology in patients with congenital left-hemispheric brain lesions
| Autor: | Karen Lidzba, Marion Knecht |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Linguistics and Language medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience Twins Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb Brain damage Audiology Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Task (project management) Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Judgment 0302 clinical medicine Germany Inflection medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Language Neuronal Plasticity 05 social sciences Brain Language development Brain Injuries Case-Control Studies Brain lesions Grammaticality Female medicine.symptom Psychology Comprehension Participle 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Brain and language. |
| ISSN: | 1090-2155 |
| Popis: | The goal of this study was to test whether children, teenagers and adults with congenital left-hemispheric brain lesions master the regularities of German verbal inflectional morphology. Thirteen patients and 35 controls without brain damage participated in three experiments. A grammaticality judgment task, a participle inflection task and a nonce-verb inflection task revealed significant differences between patients and controls. In addition, a main effect of verb type could be observed as patients and controls made more mistakes with irregular than with regular verbs. The findings indicate that the congenitally damaged brain not only has difficulties with complex syntactic structures during language development, as reported by earlier studies, but also has persistent deficits on the morphological level. These observations suggest that the plasticity of the developing brain cannot fully compensate for congenital brain damage which affects regions associated with language functions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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