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On Paragrammatism in Finnish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Pirkko Kukkonen
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Department of General Linguistics, PO Box 4, SF-00014University of Helsinki, Finland
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Abstract

Previous studies on the nature of paragrammatism in Finnish have established a continuum of syntactic complexity with normal speech at one end and Broca's aphasics at the other, while Wernicke's aphasics fall between these two groups. In the present analysis, two paragrammatic aphasics are described whose utterances are longer than normal and of a more complex syntactic structure than the utterances in the comparison data. The paragrammatic subjects also make plenty of morphological and syntactic errors. The comparison of the present results with earlier studies on paragrammatism in Finnish shows that paragrammatism is subject to considerable variation

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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