Italian prepositions in aphasic production : evidence from three experimental studies

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dc.contributor.advisor Cinque, Guglielmo it_IT
dc.contributor.author Zampieri, Elisa <1981> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-11-15T12:31:31Z it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-11-27T11:12:47Z
dc.date.available 2012-11-15T12:31:31Z it_IT
dc.date.available 2012-11-27T11:12:47Z
dc.date.issued 2012-09-27 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1251 it_IT
dc.description.abstract In this work, we provide a linguistic analysis of Italian prepositions with the aid of three neuro-linguistic experiments. The first part of the dissertation is devoted to the most important linguistic theories dealing with the following topics: (i) the formation of articulated prepositions; (ii) the syntax of complex prepositions; (iii) the linguistic nature of prepositional compounds. In the second part, instead, three experiments are presented every one assessing one of the fields we have mentioned above. Articulated prepositions have been analyzed through two production tasks performed by 8 aphasic patients. Complex prepositions and prepositional compounds, instead, have been the subjects of two case studies involving two agrammatic patients. The results have allowed us to single out, among the various proposals presented in the theoretical chapters, the linguistic model which better characterizes how Italian prepositions are processed. it_IT
dc.description.abstract In questo lavoro offriamo un’analisi linguistica delle preposizioni italiane attraverso tre esperimenti neuro-linguistici. In una prima parte teorica vengono presentate le più importanti teorie linguistiche che si sono occupate di studiare: la formazione delle preposizioni articolate; la struttura sintattica delle preposizioni complesse; la natura dei composti preposizionali. La seconda parte, invece, è dedicata a tre esperimenti nei quali sono stati coinvolti alcuni pazienti afasici. Ogni esperimento riguarda uno degli argomenti teorici sopra menzionati. Le preposizioni articolate sono state analizzate attraverso due compiti di produzione somministrati ad un gruppo di 8 pazienti. Le preposizioni complesse ed i composti preposizionali, invece, sono stati oggetto di due casi di studio che hanno coinvolto due pazienti colpiti da agrammatismo. Dai risultati di questi tre studi sono state ricavate delle conclusioni teoriche che confermano alcune delle ipotesi presentate in precedenza. it_IT
dc.format.medium Tesi cartacea it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Elisa Zampieri, 2012 it_IT
dc.subject Prepositions it_IT
dc.subject Aphasia it_IT
dc.subject Syntax it_IT
dc.title Italian prepositions in aphasic production : evidence from three experimental studies it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Scienze del linguaggio it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Scuola di dottorato in Scienze del linguaggio, della cognizione e della formazione it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2010/2011 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 24 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Giorgi, Alessandra it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark D001181 it_IT
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955588 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber 211 p. it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/01 GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent INTRODUCTION 9 1. ARTICULATED PREPOSITIONS: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 15 1.1 Languages with contraction bwtween prepositions and articles 16 1.1.1 French inflected prepositions 16 1.1.2 German inflected prepositions 23 1.1.3 Portuguese inflected prepositions 29 1.2 Languages with contraction between prepositions and other functional elements. 35 1.2.1 Irish contracted forms 36 2. ITALIAN PREPOSITIONS 41 2.1 Introduction 41 2.2 Monosyllabic Prepositions 42 2.2.1 Articulated Prepositions 46 2.2.2. Argumentations against the inflectional hypothesis 53 2.2.3. How does contraction happen? 60 2.3 Complex prepositions 68 2.3.1 Italian Complex prepositions 75 3. PREPOSITIONAL COMPOUND WORDS 83 3.1 Introduction 83 3.2 NpN compounds 84 3.2.1 Theoretical background 84 3.2.2 NpN Compounds in aphasia 90 3.3 PN compounds 93 4. PREPOSITIONS AND APHASIA 95 4.1 A review of the neuropsychological literature on prepositions 95 4.2 Conclusions 111 5. EXPERIMENT 1 – PREPOSITIONAL CONTRACTED FORMS IN ITALIAN APHASIC PRODUCTION. 114 5.1 Introduction 114 5.2 Participants 114 5.3 Completion task 115 5.3.1 Materials and Methods 115 5.3.2 Results 117 5.3.3 Articulated prepositions 117 5.3.4 Simple prepositions 119 5.3.5 Definite articles 120 5.3.6 Non-articulated prepositions 120 5.3.7 Further observations 121 5.4 Repetition task 123 5.4.1 Methods and Materials 123 5.4.2 Results 124 5.4.3 Articulated prepositions 125 5.4.4 Simple prepositions 127 5.4.5 Non-articulated prepositions 127 5.4.6 Definite Articles 129 5.4.7 Further observations 129 5.5 Discussion 130 5.6 Conclusions 132 6. EXPERIMENT 2 – COMPLEX PREPOSITIONS IN AGRAMMATIC APHASIA 133 6.1 Introduction 133 6.2 The patient 133 6.3 Materials and Methods 134 6.3.1 Analysis 136 6.4 Results 136 6.4.1. Omission of Axial Part 137 6.4.2 Omission of Figure 138 6.4.3 Omission of Axial Part and Figure 138 6.4.4 Summary of results 138 6.5 Discussion 139 6.6 Conclusions 142 7. EXPERIEMENT 3 – PREPOSITIONAL COMPOUNDS IN BROCA’S APHASIA 144 7.1 Introduction 144 7.2 Participant 144 7.3 Repetition and reading tasks 145 7.3.1 Materials 145 7.3.2 Methods 147 7.3.3 Results of the repetition task 147 7.3.4 Results of the reading task 149 7.4 Completion tasks 153 7.4.1 Materials and Methods 153 7.4.2 Results of completion tasks 153 7.5 Repetition task with phrases 156 7.5.1 Materials and Methods 156 7.5.2 Results of the repetition task with phrases 157 7.6 Discussion 159 CONCLUDING REMARKS 164 REFERENCES 168 APPENDIX A – EXPERIMENT 1 179 APPENDIX B - EXPERIMENT 2 189 APPENDIX C – EXPERIMENT 3 192 it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Zampieri, Elisa. "Italian prepositions in aphasic production : evidence from three experimental studies", Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, tesi di dottorato, 24. ciclo, 2012 it_IT


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