Impaired Verb-Related Morphosyntactic Production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence From Greek.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A recent systematic review found that language deficits are not very common in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, there are significant gaps in our knowledge about language abilities in MS. For instance, morphosyntactic production has not been explored adequately thus far. This study investigated verb-related morphosyntactic production in MS focusing on Greek, a morphologically rich language.

Methods

A sentence completion task tapping into the production of subject-verb agreement, time reference/tense, and grammatical aspect was administered to 39 Greek-speaking individuals with MS [25 individuals with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS group) and 14 individuals with secondary progressive MS (SPMS group)]. The task included only regular verbs. Generalize

SUBMITTER: Fyndanis V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7481395 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature