Syntactic recursion and theory-of-mind reasoning in agrammatic aphasia
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2011/04/0004/000173Keywords:
syntactic recursion, theory of mind, aphasiaAbstract
This study investigates how aphasic impairment impinges on the recursivity of language and theory-of-mind inferences. The results of linguistic testing showed that in Broca‘s aphasia, syntactic recursion is substituted for theory-of-mind inferences, supporting the view that the linguistic system and theory-of-mind type reasoning interact via a single, shared recursion module in the human mind.
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