Encoding and Decoding Motion Events in English and French: Comparative Case-Studies in Agrammatism and Anomia

Soroli, Efstathia; Hickmann, Maya; Sahraoui, Halima

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.09.164

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“…More specifically, SWA's problems in verb retrieval and event description have been attributed to a difficulty in construing events in a language-relevant manner (Cairns, Marshall, Cairns & Dipper 2007;Dean & Black 2005;Marshall, Pring & Chiat 1993;Sacchett & Black 2011). Moreover, some recent studies that investigate the encoding strategies of agrammatic and anomic speakers of typologically different languages (English and French) as compared to homologue control groups from both a cross-language and a cross-syndrome perspective (Soroli, Hickmann & Sahraoui 2011) show that syndrome-related factors may be the source of similarities in the verbalizations of motion events within specific types of aphasia. However, speakers with different syndromes also show similarities in their lexicalization patterns, following to a large extent the properties of their native language.…”

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Linguistic encoding of motion events in English and French

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Languages show differences in how they encode motion in discourse: Verbframed languages lexicalize Path in the verb, leaving Manner peripheral or implicit; Satellite-framed languages lexicalize Manner together with Path adjuncts. The present study investigates: 1) the extent to which such typological constraints affect the verbalizations of second language learners (English learners of French) and of aphasic speakers (English and French speakers with agrammatism) -who typically show dissociations between lexical and syntactic knowledge -in comparison to controls (English and French native speakers); as well as 2) the role of language-independent factors (level of acquisition, syndrome type). Despite some similarities between learners and speakers with aphasia due to language-independent factors, the findings suggest typologically constrained verbalizations in all groups, as well as diverging strategies that may reflect distinct underlying conceptualization processes.

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