Abstract:
:In this paper we examine the tendency for agrammatic aphasics to make thematic reversal errors in comprehension, e.g., a tendency for English-speaking agrammatics to assign a preposed object the subject role. Although this tendency has been argued to follow from either a linear (Grodzinsky, 1995) or a directionality (Hagiwara & Caplan, 1990) strategy, we show that such proposals can, at best, function as language-particular strategies. We examine data from English, Japanese, German and Dutch, and propose a Structural Prominence Hypothesis which captures the following cross-linguistic generalization: thematic reversal errors result from a tendency to assign thematic roles based on the relative structural prominence of the candidate NPs.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Friederici AD,Gorrell Pdoi
10.1006/brln.1998.1988subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-11-01 00:00:00pages
253-75issue
2eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(98)91988-5journal_volume
65pub_type
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