Processamento da correferência em pacientes com afasia de expressão

Abstract

The coreference processing is a phenomenon that has been studied internationally. In order to contribute to these national studies, we investigated the coreferential processing from the phenomenon of the Charge Repeated Name Penalty and Informational Charge Hypothesis in patients with aphasia. The overall objective is to analyze the processing of coreference in patients with Broca's aphasia, investigating, specifically if pronouns are processed more readily than names repeated in Brazilian Portuguese in subjects with and without the pathology; and if Superordinate Nominal Phrases are processed more quickly than hyponyms. Two experiments were conducted; and the experimental technique used was automonitoring reading in both experimentos, the independent variable is the type of recovery (pronoun and name repeated the in experiment 01, and Hyponym and hyperonym in the experiment 02) and as dependent variables the reading time of resumption and the accuracy rate to end-of-sentence questions. In experiment 01, the results of the control group were in the direction of what has been found in the literature, about to aphasic patients, the results showed insensitivity to the type of recovery, these data are discussed from a possible deficit in lexicon-semantic integration In experiment 02, once again, the control group follows the direction of what has been found in the literature, and the experimental group was observed that there is not a recovery-type preference. At the end of each phrase a question about it was performed. The subjects were able to answer such questions, indicating the establishment of coreference. We understand, from these data that patients with Broca's aphasia can access the lexical information and establish coreference, but need more time to do it.