@article{95671fbc1e02437d875320a18fb9ef63,
title = "Sensitivity to grammatical marking in English-speaking and French-speaking non-fluent aphasics",
abstract = "We examine the sensitivity of English-speaking and French-speaking non-fluent aphasic subjects to grammatical marking such as number and gender. Using a sentence-picture matching paradigm we tested sentences in which grammatical marking appeared in one position only: e.g. That sheep crossed the stream vs The goat crossed the stream vs The sheep is crossing the stream vs The sheep crosses the stream. Performance across sentence types varied according to two factors: (1) marking within the noun phrase was easier for subjects to discern than marking which appeared outside the noun phrase; (2) marking which was an inherent feature of a free (unbound) morpheme was associated with better performance than marking which was affixal in nature. These factors were relevant for subjects from both language groups, despite differences between languages in terms of probability of grammatical marking.",
author = "Nicol, {J. L.} and C. Jakubowicz and Goldblum, {M. C.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research reported here was supported in part by a grant from the McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Program, in part by grant DC-01409 (a research and training grant funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders), and in part, from grant 869008 from INSERM (Institut National de la Sante et la Recherche Medicale, Paris, France). A NATO grant from International Collaboration in Research made this joint work possible by providing funding for travel. We thank Marie De Agostini, Helgard Kremin, Doug Saddy, and Jeni Yamada for help in designing stimuli and testing subjects; Danielle Beauchamp, Jill Caffrey, Marie Dominique Martory, Dominique Perrier, and Carol Webster for testing subjects ; Pelagie Beeson, Catherine Belin, Martine Desi, Steven Rapcsak, Roger Segovia, and Phillipe van Eeckhoute for subject referral and information ; and Anne Marie Tabuchi, who provided precious help in data collection and management. We are grateful to Andrew Barss and Kay Bock for helpful discussion of some of the issues, and to Andrew Barss, Paul Bloom, Merrill Garrett, Lise Menn, and two anonymous reviewers for comments on previous drafts of this paper.",
year = "1996",
doi = "10.1080/02687039608248439",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "593--622",
journal = "Aphasiology",
issn = "0268-7038",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "6",
}