On the asymmetry between subject and object relative clauses in discourse context

Forster, Renê; Corrêa, Letícia Maria Sicuro

doi:10.17851/2237-2083.25.3.1225-1254

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“…Even age and education only partially explained a sentence type effect, which, despite having only 15 participants, was significant and had sufficient power and effect size (Table 6). In accordance with studies discussing the crucial role of this hemisphere in thetical grammar, we postulate that integrating parts of a text into a coherent whole is relevant for relative sentence and objective question processing [229]. These findings were novel and were limited to 15 patients.…”

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German Language Adaptation of the NAVS (NAVS-G) and of the NAT (NAT-G): Testing Grammar in Aphasia

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Grammar provides the framework for understanding and producing language. In aphasia, an acquired language disorder, grammatical deficits are diversified and widespread. However, the few assessments for testing grammar in the German language do not consider current linguistic, psycholinguistic, and functional imaging data, which have been shown to be crucial for effective treatment. This study developed German language versions of the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS-G) and the Northwestern Anagram Test (NAT-G) to examine comprehension and production of verbs, controlling for the number and optionality of verb arguments, and sentences with increasing syntactic complexity. The NAVS-G and NAT-G were tested in 27 healthy participants, 15 right hemispheric stroke patients without aphasia, and 15 stroke patients with mild to residual aphasia. Participants without aphasia showed near-perfect performance, with the exception of (object) relative sentences, where accuracy was associated with educational level. In each patient with aphasia, deficits in more than one subtest were observed. The within and between population-groups logistic mixed regression analyses identified significant impairments in processing syntactic complexity at the verb and sentence levels. These findings indicate that the NAVS-G and NAT-G have potential for testing grammatical competence in (German) stroke patients.

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German Language Adaptation of the NAVS (NAVS-G) and of the NAT (NAT-G): Testing Grammar in Aphasia

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“…Notice that this sort of computation requires, in the online model proposed, that three phrase markers are dealt with simultaneously, which is made possible by the parallel derivational spaces assumed (see also Nunes & Uriagereka Regarding the PPlan condition, a top-down DP functional skeleton is generated, without a CP as complement (27). It is only when the DP has been transferred to phonological encoding and starts to be articulated that the speaker takes into account the need to specify its referent (the idea of DPs as phases is assumed (Augusto, Corrêa & Forster 2012;Forster & Corrêa 2017). At this point, the speaker has no choice but to generate an independent CP to be adjoined to the DP.…”

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Competing analyses and differential cost in the production of non-subject relative clauses

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Augusto

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2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The computational cost of restrictive non-subject relative clauses (RCs) in different processing conditions is discussed in relation to competing analyses of RCs. An elicited production experiment is reported in which adult speakers of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) were asked to continue a preamble in such a way that a right-branching restrictive RC would enable a particular referent to be identified. Two processing conditions were contrasted: fully planned (FPlan), in which the speaker could plan the RC as the sentence production started; and partially planned (PPlan), in which production started before it was clear that a restrictive RC was the only option to encode the reference unambiguously. It was anticipated that the number of standard RCs would be lower in the PPlan condition, with an increase in the non-standard alternatives. This prediction is verified, with chopping standing as a cost reducing strategy in the production of indirect object RCs. It is argued that, for the standard strategy, RCs as complements (as conceived of in most raising analyses) suit an online model of RC computation in the fully planned condition; however, the possibility of RCs as adjuncts, as proposed by most head external and matching analyses, is required for the incremental computation of a restrictive RC in the partially planned condition.

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“…Portanto, observa-se uma assimetria entre esses dois tipos de oração, o que explicaria por que relativas de objeto seriam mais difíceis para o processamento do que as de sujeito(GRILLO, 2009;FORSTER & CORRÊA, 2017).Na oração relativa de objeto, há a intervenção do sujeito dessa oração, que torna essa distância maior entre o objeto direto e o verbo do qual esse objeto é complemento. O leitor/ouvinte precisa manter o objeto direto na memória de trabalho até que a posição de origem do complemento do verbo seja alcançada e, paralelamente, processar a relação sujeito-verbo, isto é, processar o elemento interveniente de natureza similar à do objeto: um sintagma nominal também, mas que, no caso, é o sujeito.…”

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Avaliação De Linguagem No Diagnóstico De Casos De Comprometimento Cognitivo Leve: Proposta De Um Instrumento De Verificação De Habilidades Sintáticas No Envelhecimento

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incentivo, pela dedicação, pela generosidade, por todo o conhecimento compartilhado que foi fundamental para a realização deste trabalho.À minha coorientadora, Professora Helenice Charchat Fichman, pela disponibilidade, pelo apoio, pelo estímulo, por todo o conhecimento compartilhado que também foi essencial para a condução desta pesquisa.Ao CNPq, à Capes e à PUC-Rio, pelos auxílios concedidos, sem os quais este trabalho não poderia ter sido realizado.Aos meus pais, que sempre se empenharam para me proporcionar a melhor educação, pelo suporte nos momentos difíceis.A todos os professores do Departamento de Letras, que também foram parte muito importante na minha formação. À Chiquinha, secretária da pós-graduação durante meus anos do curso, pela atenção e pelo carinho.with a group of 43 younger adults and a group of 10 elderly people without cognitive impairment, to evaluate the functionality of the developed test. Both groups performed the image identification task without difficulties, with a similar average time and a low percentage of errors, which occurred with the most complex structures of the set of the examined sentences. Therefore, the pilot study results suggest that the test can be a sensitive measure in the evaluation of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension by adults and the elderly.

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On the asymmetry between subject and object relative clauses in discourse context

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

German Language Adaptation of the NAVS (NAVS-G) and of the NAT (NAT-G): Testing Grammar in Aphasia

German Language Adaptation of the NAVS (NAVS-G) and of the NAT (NAT-G): Testing Grammar in Aphasia

Competing analyses and differential cost in the production of non-subject relative clauses

Avaliação De Linguagem No Diagnóstico De Casos De Comprometimento Cognitivo Leve: Proposta De Um Instrumento De Verificação De Habilidades Sintáticas No Envelhecimento

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