When Words Betray Us: Language, the Brain, and Aphasia by Sheila E. Blumstein

Author:Sheila E. Blumstein [Blumstein, Sheila E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030958480
Google: 2BVuEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2022-09-15T20:32:00+00:00

5.2.2 Problems with Grammar: Wernicke’s Aphasia

Recall that in Chap. 2 we talked about the language output in Wernicke’s aphasia. It was described as fluent and well-articulated, containing grammatical words and endings, and seemingly empty of semantic content. It certainly does not seem to be agrammatic, suggesting a real dichotomy in the syntactic abilities of Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia. Even the short samples we described in Chap. 2, repeated below, are replete with the use of grammatical free words, ‘and’, ‘it’, ‘to’ and the use of grammatical markers, e.g. ‘saw’, ‘was’, ‘knew’, wanted’, and ‘had’.A4. ‘I saw it and it was so that I knew it to be that it was’

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