Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia

Salis, C. and Saddy, J. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8501-6076 (2011) Comprehension of wh-questions in a case of mixed dementia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24 (2). pp. 456-462. ISSN 0911-6044 doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.02.001

Abstract/Summary

We investigated processing of wh-questions and declarative sentences with differing syntactic complexity in a case of mixed dementia (FA). FA was impaired in her ability to understand syntactically complex declarative sentences and syntactically complex wh-questions beginning with which but not complex who questions. This profile, novel in dementia, is similar to that reported for people with agrammatic aphasia and discerns a ‘‘fault line’’ of the language system along a syntactic/semantic parameter

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/4501
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.02.001
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords	Mixed dementia; Alzheimer’s disease; Wh-questions; Syntax; Grammar;
Publisher	Elsevier
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