Disorders of syntactic comprehension. - CAPLAN, DAVID; HILDEBRANDT, NANCY.
KORTE INHOUD
On the basis of a decade's work on syntactic-comprehension disorders, primarily inthe Neurolinguistics Laboratory of the Montreal Neurological Hospital, David Caplan and NancyHildebrandt present an original theory of these disturbances of language function. They suggest inthis wide-ranging study that syntactic structure breaks down after damage to the brain because ofspecific impairments in the parsing processes and a general decrease in the amount of computationalspace that can be devoted to that function.Disorders of Syntactic Comprehension includes detailedsingle-case analyses and large-group studies, as well as a broad review of the literature onaphasia. It also provides introductions to syntactic structures and parsing for the readerunfamiliar with these subjects. It develops a general framework for viewing disorders in this areaand for identifying a number of specific aspects of the breakdown of syntactic comprehension.Theauthors' richly detailed empirical linguistic database and their careful use of ex...
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1988Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1988.340 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0262031329ISBN-13: 9780262031325Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Orig. cloth. With dustjacket. xviii,340 pp.; 24 cm. - "Issues in the biology of language and cognition" (d.j. sl. worn, previous owner's name at top of title page) Otherwise very good. ¶ 'A Bradford book.'. 890 [Auteur: CAPLAN, DAVID; HILDEBRANDT, NANCY.] [Uitgever: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press] [Jaar: 1988] [Titel: Disorders of syntactic comprehension.]
