Procesamiento de argumentos en personas con afasia

Abstract

Subjects with aphasia exhibit impairments in many linguistic processes. One of the most common problems they face lie at the syntactic processing level, particularly on the processing of arguments. In general terms, aphasic people exhibit more difficulties at the syntactic level as the sentences are more complex. Previous research on the production and understanding of arguments in aphasic subjects show that difficulties are notoriously more evident as the number of argument associated to a given verb increase. The aim of the current work is to obtain more evidence on difficulties experienced by subjects with aphasia on the processing of arguments in the context of a description task. Results corroborate previous evidence showing impaired processing of arguments.