THE EFFECTS OF SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE ON DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION IN PATIENTS WITH PARSING IMPAIRMENTS

被引:22
作者
CAPLAN, D [1 ]
EVANS, KL [1 ]
机构
[1] MCGILL UNIV,SCH HUMAN COMMUN DISORDERS,MONTREAL H3A 2T5,QUEBEC,CANADA
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1016/0093-934X(90)90012-6
中图分类号
R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
学科分类号
100104 ; 100213 ;
摘要
Syntactic complexity was systematically manipulated in sentence and discourse comprehension tasks. Aphasic patients, but not normal controls, showed effects of syntactic structure in the sentence comprehension task. Neither aphasic nor control subjects showed significant differences between the comprehension of syntactically simple and complex stories. This pattern confirms the clinical impression that some discourses can be understood by patients who cannot utilize syntactically based sentence comprehension mechanisms. © 1990.
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页码:206 / 234
页数:29
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