Verb and sentence processing patterns in healthy Italian participants: Insight from the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS).

ABSTRACT: We developed an Italian version of the Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS, Thompson, 2011), a test assessing verb and sentence deficits typically found in aphasia, by focusing on verb-argument structure and syntactic complexity effects, rarely captured by standard language tests. Twenty-one young healthy individuals underwent a computerized experimental version of the NAVS, including three subtests assessing production/comprehension of verbs with different number (one, two, three) and type (obligatory or optional) of arguments, and two investigating production/comprehension of sentences with canonical/non-canonical word order. The number of verb arguments affected participants' reaction times (RTs) in verb naming and comprehension. Furthermore, verbs with optional argumen

SUBMITTER: Barbieri E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6902639 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May - Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature