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Argument semantics and relative frequency in the comprehension of the passive construction in persons with aphasia
Pospíšilová, Eva ; Láznička, Michal (advisor) ; Chromý, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the influence of argument semantics and relative frequency of passive voice on the understanding of Czech passive construction in people with aphasia. The aim of the work is to design an experiment that will examine the factors connected with the agrammatic understanding in Czech, and test it on a group of neurotypic speakers. Theoretical chapters of this thesis are devoted to a general description of aphasia, linguistic aphasiology and manifestations of aphasic syndromes in Czech. They also present the basic results of previous research which examined the understanding of semantically reversible passive sentences in patients with aphasia. In the final theoretical chapter, findings from foreign aphasiological literature, which highlighted the relationship between the level of understanding of complex syntactic structures and their frequency, are discussed. The experimental part of the text focuses on the design of the actual experiment. Based on a corpus analysis, a total of 24 verbs with high and low relative frequency of passive forms were selected, each verb was used in four sentences with different combinations of voice, relative frequency of passive and (in)animacy of patient. To verify comprehension, the self-paced reading method was chosen along with...
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