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Comprehension deficits of Broca's aphasics provide no evidence for traces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Paul Kay
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay

Abstract

The data provided by Grodzinsky demonstrating a syntactic comprehension deficit in Broca's patients provide no evidence for the theoretical concepts of movement, trace or “trace deletion.” The comprehension deficit data can be more economically accounted for with traditional grammatical concepts that are less theory-internal and more empirically based.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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