Semantic and syntactic processing of mass and count nouns: Data from dementia

被引：4

作者：

Mondini, Sara ^{[1
]}

Arcara, Giorgio ^{[2
]}

Jarema, Gonia ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Padua, Dept Gen Psychol, Cremona, Italy

[2] IRCCS Fdn Osped San Camillo, Venice, Italy

[3] Univ Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada

[4] Inst Univ Geriatrie Montreal, Res Ctr, Montreal, PQ, Canada

来源：

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY | 2014年 / 36卷 / 09期

关键词：

Semantic impairment; Mass/count nouns; Dementia of Alzheimer type; Noncountable nouns; Alzheimer disease; Syntactic impairment; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; MASS/COUNT DISTINCTION; LEXICAL ACCESS; COMPREHENSION; INFORMATION; PRESERVATION; APHASIA; COMMON; BRAIN;

D O I：

10.1080/13803395.2014.958437

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

In the present research, we investigated the processing of Italian mass and count nouns and of their semantic and morphosyntactic attributes in people with neurodegenerative disease. The performance of a group of 26 Italian participants with Alzheimer's disease was studied in a semantic judgment task and a syntactic judgment task. Results were analyzed by means of mixed-effect models, revealing an interaction between task and stimulus category: The probability for correct responses to mass stimuli was significantly lower than that for count stimuli, but only in the semantic task. These findings confirm the major semantic impairment in dementia and suggest that mass nouns have particular features that make them more prone to impairment than count nouns for a progressively degenerating brain.

引用

页码：967 / 980

页数：14

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