摘要：Individuals with aphasia (IWA) have difficulty in comprehending reversible non-canonical word order sentences compared to canonical word order. Representational accounts (e.g. Grodzinsky, 1995) assume that this difficulty with non-canonical sentences reflects disturbances in underlying syntactic representations. In contrast, according to processing accounts structural representations are unimpaired, but sentence comprehension is affected by a processing deficit, which leads to slowed processing or intermittent breakdowns of the parser. Studies investigating aphasie online sentence processing in addition to tradional off-line performance measures provide new evidence towards structurally unimpaired but delayed syntactic processing in aphasia.
