Neurolinguistic Evidence for Syntactic and Semantic Processes : A Review of the Literature

P(論文)Recent investigations of syntactic and semantic aspects of language comprehension in aphasia are reviewed. It is argued that these studies support theoretical assumptions concerning the functional independence of various components of normal language processing. Studies of sentence comprehension support the existence of a syntactic mechanism that is independent of lexically based heuristic strategies for assigning meaning. There is evidence that these independent elements of language are subserved by different portions of the dominant hemisphere of the brain. Studies of aphasic language provide a valuable source of constraints on theories of normal language processing.departmental bulletin pape