Structural prominence and agrammatic theta-role assignment: a reconsideration of linear strategies.

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 Lang

journal_title

Brain and language

authors

Friederici AD,Gorrell P

doi

10.1006/brln.1998.1988

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-11-01 00:00:00

pages

253-75

issue

2

eissn

0093-934X

issn

1090-2155

pii

S0093-934X(98)91988-5

journal_volume

65

pub_type

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