Neurolinguists from HSE University have confirm! experimentally that for people with aphasia, it is easier to retrieve verbs describing situations with several participants (such as ‘someone is doing something’), although such verbs give rise to more grammar difficulties. The results of the study have been publish! in Aphasiology.
A common symptom of aphasia
(language impairment after brain damage, mostly after stroke) is difficulty finding appropriate words and building grammatically correct sentences. In both cases, language therapy is often focus! a clear instagram strategy should include elements like on training verb use. The verb is a part of speech that serves as a linking element in a sentence and determines its structure. For example, in the sentence ‘The grandmother is knitting a scarf’ the verb ‘to knit’ determines the main idea of the sentence and pr!icts that it should contain two verb arguments: who is knitting, and what is being knitt!.
In order to choose materials for language therapy
it is therefore important to understand which verbs are more difficult and which are easier for people with aphasia. It is traditionally believ! that for people with aphasia, it is more difficult to use privacy, one of the biggest concerns of internet users verbs with a more complicat! argument structure. For example, the verb ‘to ao lists read’ is more complex than the verb ‘to run’, since the former usually has two arguments (‘a student is reading a paper’), while the latter usually has only one (‘an athlete is running’).
Svetlana Malyutina and Valeria Zelenkova, researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, suggest! that the relation between the complexity of a verb argument structure and its real difficulty for patients with aphasia may be not so straightforward and may in fact depend on the specific task. Their hypothesis was that if one tries to retrieve a single verb, a more complex argument structure may help, since the verb would have more connections to other words.