Processing Active / Passive Sentences in Turkish Agrammatic Aphasics

Abstract

In this study, the comprehension of lexical processing in aphasia was evaluated. Five left brain damaged Turkish Broca's aphasic subjects performed a lexical decision task. At the very outset of the study, a Dichotic Listening Test was conducted so that the dominant hemisphere for word processing could be evaluated. In order to check the level of lexical processing, the visual lexical decision task and passive sentence comprehension task which contained twenty active and twenty passive sentences were conducted to examine whether the subjects could comprehend the selected expressions. The results showed that Turkish Broca's aphasic patients have no difficulty in understanding active sentences which has an agent as the first element in a sentence unlike passive equivalents in a theme agent order. In other words, the potential problem of comprehension is closely related to the word order of the target language in Broca's aphasic patients.

Türkçede Nesneli̇ Geçi̇şsi̇z Ve Özneli̇ Geçi̇şsi̇z Eylemleri̇n Bi̇li̇şel İşlemlenme Süreci̇: Öz İlerlemeli̇ Okuma Çalişmasi

“…Yapılan onarım testi çerçevesinde değerlendirildiğinde katılımcıların edilgen Senem Kuzu -Mehmet Aygüneş -Hürriyet Gökdayı | Dil Dergisi-Ocak 2021 | 150-174 eylemleri çözümleme sürecinde bunların etken biçimlerini referans aldıkları ve bu farklılığın da edilgenleştirme sürecinin getirdiği bilişsel yükten kaynaklandığı düşünülmektedir. Bu açıdan bulgular edilgen tümcelerin etken yapılardan daha güç işlemlendiğini öne süren alanyazınla uyumludur (Bastiaanse ve Zonneveld ,2005;Caplan ve Hannah ,1998;Meyer, Mack ve Thompson, 2012;Faroqi-Shah ve Thompson, 2003;Soojin ve Thompson, 2010;Thompson, 2003;Bastiaanse ve Edwards, 2004;Yağız ve Aydın, 2014;Duman vd., 2007;Bastiaanse, Bouma ve Post, 2009).…”