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
40 - Morpho-syntactic processing of Korean-speaking adults with Broca's 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
Abstract
In this chapter, studies on morpho-syntactic processing of Korean-speaking adults with Broca's aphasia are reviewed. In the production of grammatical morphemes, the aphasic adults could produce certain grammatical morphemes as correctly as normal adult subjects. In the comprehension of simple sentences, as with normal adults, the aphasic adults relied more on case-marker cues than on animacy or word-order cues, although they did not utilize case markers as extensively as normal adults. In comprehending sentences with relative clauses, the aphasic patients' performance patterns varied depending on the severity of their language deficits; while the moderate aphasic patients appeared to rely on word order, the mild aphasic patients showed evidence of their abilities to process case markers. It was also noted that the aphasic adults' sentence comprehension was greatly affected by the processing load of the tasks. The importance of the specificity of languages, the patients' severity of aphasia and the processing load of tasks in research on aphasia are discussed.
Introduction
Individuals who suffer from aphasia experience breakdowns in language processing. The relative degree of impairment across the different aspects of language processing varies between patients. Patients with Broca's aphasia are known to have pronounced deficits in morpho-syntactic processing. Their speech production is often characterized by a marked reduction in phrase length and syntactic complexity with omissions of inflections and grammatical function words, giving the patient's speech a “telegraphic look.” (Goodglass, 1993).
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- The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics , pp. 494 - 503Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009