TY - JOUR
T1 - Greater syntactic impairments in native language in bilingual Parkinsonian patients
AU - Zanini, S.
AU - Tavano, A.
AU - Vorano, L.
AU - Schiavo, F.
AU - Gigli, G. L.
AU - Aglioti, S. M.
AU - Fabbro, F.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Objective: To investigate the presence of syntactic impairments in native language in Parkinson's disease. Methods: Twelve bilingual patients, with Friulian as their first language (L1) and Italian as their second (L2), with Parkinson's disease and 12 normal controls matched for age, sex, and years of schooling, were studied on three syntactic tasks. Results: Patients with Parkinson's disease showed a greater impairment of L1 than L2. Conclusions: These findings provide evidence of greater basal ganglia involvement in the acquisition and further processing of grammar in L1 v L2 possibly due to a major involvement of procedural memory in representing L1 grammar.
AB - Objective: To investigate the presence of syntactic impairments in native language in Parkinson's disease. Methods: Twelve bilingual patients, with Friulian as their first language (L1) and Italian as their second (L2), with Parkinson's disease and 12 normal controls matched for age, sex, and years of schooling, were studied on three syntactic tasks. Results: Patients with Parkinson's disease showed a greater impairment of L1 than L2. Conclusions: These findings provide evidence of greater basal ganglia involvement in the acquisition and further processing of grammar in L1 v L2 possibly due to a major involvement of procedural memory in representing L1 grammar.
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U2 - 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018507
DO - 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018507
M3 - Article
C2 - 15548481
AN - SCOPUS:10044275563
VL - 75
SP - 1678
EP - 1681
JO - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
SN - 0022-3050
IS - 12
ER -