Production of Prototypical and Non-prototypical Combinations of Tense and Aspect in Uzbek Agrammatic Aphasia
Iroda Azimova
Abstract
This study investigates the role of the type of tense and aspect combinations in verb production in agrammatic aphasia. For this reason verb production was tested by means of sentence completion task, which was administered to three Uzbek agrammatic speakers. Four conditions, namely, past perfect and present continuous forms as prototypical patterns, and past continuous and future perfect as nonprototypical patterns were included in the test. The production of prototypical and non-prototypical combinations of tense and aspect test showed preference for prototypical combinations of tense and aspect in Uzbek agrammatic speakers. Past continuous was the most impaired form compared to other conditions while present continuous was best preserved. There was no significant difference between past perfect and future perfect, but analysis of error patterns showed the advantage of past perfect. Thus, prediction made by Dragoy and Bastiaanse (2013), according to which the limited processing resources of aphasic individuals evokes the strategy of using crosslinguistically prototypical and cognitively grounded time reference– aspect matches was confirmed.
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How to Cite
Iroda Azimova (2015). Production of Prototypical and Non-prototypical Combinations of Tense and Aspect in Uzbek Agrammatic Aphasia. IJCAS, Vol. 19, No. 1, .