Grammatical theory and the study of sentence comprehension in aphasia: comments on Druks and Marshall (1995)

Druks and Marshall (1995) argue that aphasic comprehension problems are accountable as the consequence of a disrupted Case assignment module. But the analysis they present does not support their argument and it provides a distorted view of grammatically based analyses of brain-language relations.

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