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Preservation of passive constructions in a patient with primary progressive aphasia

Zimmerer, VC; Dabrowska, E; Romanowski, CAJ; Blank, C; Varley, RA; (2014) Preservation of passive constructions in a patient with primary progressive aphasia. Cortex , 50 pp. 7-18. 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.09.007. Green open access

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Abstract

Research into agrammatic comprehension in English has described a pattern of impaired understanding of passives and retained ability on active constructions. Some accounts of this dissociation predict that patients who are unable to comprehend actives will also be impaired in the comprehension of passives. We report the case of a man with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) (WR), whose comprehension was at chance on active sentences, but at ceiling on passives. In a series of reversible sentence comprehension tests WR displayed difficulties with active transitives and truncated actives with an auxiliary. In passive sentences, he displayed sensitivity to the agent marker by, as well as the passive morphology of the verb. This pattern of dissociation challenges current theories of agrammatic comprehension. We explore explanations based on the distinction between morphological and configurational cues, as well as on the semantic and discourse related differences between active and passive constructions.

Type: Article
Title: Preservation of passive constructions in a patient with primary progressive aphasia
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.09.007
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.09.007
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Syntax, Agrammatic comprehension, Primary progressive aphasia, Reversible sentences
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Language and Cognition
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1390610
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