摘要：Although offline studies show that inflection marking for grammatical gender and number is usually spared in comprehension in aphasia, online gender comprehension can be qualitatively different from the performance of the normal participants, as Bates et al. (2000) found for Italian and Akhutina et al. (2001) for Russian. In the study described below we investigated the moment-by-moment time course of how Russian individuals with agrammatic aphasia comprehend grammatical agreement in gender and number. We tested the Slowed Processing account (Haarmann & Kolk, 1991) that assumes a causal relationship between limitations in patients9 processing capacities and sentence comprehension deficits and hinges on deficient temporal characteristics of language processing in aphasia. We hypothesized that slowed processing in aphasia could be found not only in lexical retrieval and complex syntax but also in grammatical gender and number agreement even in simple and unambiguous sentences.
