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Syntactic Frequency and Sentence Processing in Standard Indonesian Jap, Bernard
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10.33612/diss.143947876
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Jap, B. (2020). Syntactic Frequency and Sentence Processing in Standard Indonesian: Data from agrammatic aphasia and ERP. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.143947876
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Accompanying the dissertation
Syntactic Frequency and Sentence Processing in Standard Indonesian
by Bernard Amadeus Jaya Jap
1) The processing of non-canonical structures for aphasic speakers is affected by the frequency of the syntactic structure being parsed. (Chapters 1, 2, and 3)
2) Aphasic comprehension of sentences in Standard Indonesian is impaired when the structure is both infrequent and non-canonical, regardless of embedding. (Chapter 2) 3) The production of passive sentences for aphasic speakers of Standard Indonesian is
relatively unimpaired as a whole; however, the variance of individual performance is higher with several individuals having noticeably lower accuracy for the passive- something which was not observed for active structures. (Chapter 3)
4) The same processing impairment for a particular structure does not seem to transfer across modalities at the individual level. (Chapter 3)
5) Thematic role assignment is a crucially affected component of aphasic sentence processing across modalities as evidenced by the fact that the majority of errors are comprised of role reversals. (Chapters 2 & 3)
6) At the behavioral level, there does not seem to be a noticeable difference between the processing of active and passive sentences for healthy adults. (Chapter 4)
7) The passive structure, when it is non-reversible, produces a P600-like effect with matching time windows and scalp distributions for healthy adults; this is proposed to be associated with animacy effects and increased processing costs from the reassignment of thematic roles after an inanimate first noun phrase. (Chapter 4) 8) “…avoid relying on passive structures to detect grammatical deficits in Indonesian
non-fluent aphasic speakers.” (Chapter 5)
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