Publisher Summary This chapter investigates the comprehension of discourse-linked and
non discourse-linked questions by children and Broca's aphasics. The main goal of this …

In this book, I address several issues of child linguistic development from the perspective of
the syntax-discourse interface. Traditionally, language acquisition research has focused on …

Why should linguists be interested in the study of Broca’s region? There are, in my view,
several reasons why such investigation is mutually beneficial to linguists and aphasiologists …

This article presents evidence in the development of Russian for a theory that says that
children at a terrain age know a syntactic principle (Principle B of the Binding Theory) that …

Most neuroimaging studies of language function to date use a block-subtraction paradigm
in which images acquired during relatively long periods of target stimuli are compared to …

This study investigated comprehension of wh-questions in two Broca's aphasics. Patients
were presented for comprehension with two types of wh-questions: questions headed …

… Data from all of the other sentence types discussed thus far can receive the same analysis
under Hickok and Avrutin’s more restrictive proposal since on their assumptions all these …

Subjunctive clauses of many Romance and Slavic languages show subject obviation phenomena;
that is, the requirement that a pronominal subject of a subjunctive clause be disjoint in …

When sending text messages on their mobile phone to friends, children often use a special
type of register, which is called textese. This register allows the omission of words and the …

Studies of agrammatic Broca's aphasia reveal a diverging pattern of performance in the
comprehension of reflexive elements: offline, performance seems unimpaired, whereas online—…