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Why the TDH fails to contribute to a neurology of syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Alan Beretta
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 beretta@pilot.msu.edu

Abstract

An important part of Grodzinsky's claim regarding the neurology of syntax depends on agrammatic data partitioned by the Trace Deletion Hypothesis (TDH), which is a combination of trace-deletion and default strategy. However, there is convincing evidence that the default strategy is consistently avoided by agrammatics. The TDH, therefore, is in no position to support claims about agrammatic data or the neurology of syntax.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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