Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics
- Part I Language acquisition
- Part II Language processing
- 28 Visual processing of Hangul, the Korean script
- 29 English vowel spaces produced and perceived by Americans and Koreans
- 30 Morphological representation and processing of Sino-Korean words
- 31 The role of phonology in word recognition of Korean Hangul and Hanja
- 32 Lexical and sublexical processes in Korean word recognition
- 33 Prosody in sentence processing
- 34 Korean sentence processing
- 35 Sentence processing and memory representation in Korean
- 36 Understanding complex sentences: memory constraints and informational structure
- 37 ERP studies of Korean language processing: word-order effects
- 38 Inferences during discourse comprehension in Korean
- 39 Morpho-syntactic processing in Korean aphasics
- 40 Morpho-syntactic processing of Korean-speaking adults with Broca's aphasia
- 41 Comprehension deficits in Korean agrammatic aphasia
- 42 Developmental reading disorders in Korean
- 43 Individual differences in Korean language processing: context-dependent processing of skilled readers in word ambiguity resolution
- 44 A computational model of lexical and morphological processing in Korean
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
41 - Comprehension deficits in Korean agrammatic aphasia
from Part II - Language processing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: Advances in Korean psycholinguistics
- Part I Language acquisition
- Part II Language processing
- 28 Visual processing of Hangul, the Korean script
- 29 English vowel spaces produced and perceived by Americans and Koreans
- 30 Morphological representation and processing of Sino-Korean words
- 31 The role of phonology in word recognition of Korean Hangul and Hanja
- 32 Lexical and sublexical processes in Korean word recognition
- 33 Prosody in sentence processing
- 34 Korean sentence processing
- 35 Sentence processing and memory representation in Korean
- 36 Understanding complex sentences: memory constraints and informational structure
- 37 ERP studies of Korean language processing: word-order effects
- 38 Inferences during discourse comprehension in Korean
- 39 Morpho-syntactic processing in Korean aphasics
- 40 Morpho-syntactic processing of Korean-speaking adults with Broca's aphasia
- 41 Comprehension deficits in Korean agrammatic aphasia
- 42 Developmental reading disorders in Korean
- 43 Individual differences in Korean language processing: context-dependent processing of skilled readers in word ambiguity resolution
- 44 A computational model of lexical and morphological processing in Korean
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Introduction
One of the goals of linguistic research is to understand how language functions in the brain. Although it is rarely possible to observe the brain directly, fortunately there are clues as to the nature of the neurological mechanisms underlying language. A particularly useful source of such clues comes from the patterns of linguistic deficits observed in brain-damaged aphasic patients. Among the many forms of aphasia that can occur, one of the most informative from the point of view of linguistic research is ‘agrammatism’ in non-fluent Broca's aphasia, which is generally taken to involve deficits in morphological and syntactic levels of processing (cf. Caplan, 1991).
Findings from research on agrammatism are of importance in that they can provide evidence for established linguistic theories, in addition to providing valuable clues about both the nature of the syntactic disorder itself and the neurological mechanisms underlying language. This research can also advance therapies to help rehabilitate aphasic patients. Because of its importance, researchers have extensively studied agrammatism in Indo-European languages such as English and German since the late 1970s. The most widely investigated hypotheses in this research attribute agrammatism either to the loss of syntactic knowledge or to damage to cognitive resources, which in turn compromises the ability to process intact knowledge.
The properties of individual languages may modify the manifestations of the same aphasic syndromes.
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- The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics , pp. 504 - 516Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009