Vasić Nada, Avrutin Sergey, Ruigendijk Esther
UiL OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Brain Lang. 2006 Feb;96(2):191-206. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.04.003.
In this paper, we investigate the ability of Dutch agrammatic Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics to assign reference to possessive pronouns in elided VP constructions. The assumption is that the comprehension problems in these two populations have different sources that are revealed in distinct patterns of responses. The focus is primarily on the performance of the agrammatic group whose errors in comprehension are not viewed as a consequence of a breakdown of grammatical knowledge but as a result of limited processing resources (for an overview see Grodzinsky, 2000). The results of the present study provide evidence for the psycholinguistic reality of the economy hierarchy as proposed in the Primitives of Binding (Reuland, 2001). According to the economy hierarchy proposed for the non-brain-damaged, the more economical semantic dependencies are preferred over the costlier discourse dependencies. This hierarchy is reflected in agrammatic aphasia where the semantic dependencies are available on time and preferred over the discourse dependences that are not available on time as a result of the lack of processing resources with consequences for comprehension.
在本文中，我们研究了荷兰语语法缺失的布罗卡失语症患者和韦尼克失语症患者在省略动词短语结构中赋予所有格代词所指对象的能力。我们的假设是，这两类患者的理解问题源于不同的原因，这些原因会在不同的反应模式中显现出来。我们主要关注语法缺失组的表现，该组患者在理解上出现的错误并非被视为语法知识崩溃的结果，而是由于处理资源有限（综述见格罗津斯基，2000年）。本研究结果为《约束原语》（鲁兰德，2001年）中提出的经济性层级的心理语言学现实提供了证据。根据为非脑损伤者提出的经济性层级，更经济的语义依存关系比代价更高的语篇依存关系更受青睐。这种层级在语法缺失性失语症中有所体现，其中语义依存关系能及时出现，并比语篇依存关系更受青睐，因为语篇依存关系由于缺乏处理资源而无法及时出现，进而影响理解。
