Uni-Tübingen

B5

The Syntax and Semantics of Reorganized Language and its Neuronal Architecture

Language is generally lateralized to the left hemisphere, however, children with early damage in the left hemisphere are able to reorganize language in the right hemisphere. Little work has been done on the characterization of this 'reorganized language' (RS) at any level of linguistic description. This project aimed to investigate and describe reorganized language, making reference to linguistic hypotheses and methods, and thus to contribute towards the study of adaptivity in language. Imaging procedures were used to localize language function in the brain.

Term: 2009 - 2013

Publications

  • Nickisch, N., Schwilling, E., Konietzko, A., Winkler, S., Krägeloh-Mann, I. & Lidzba, K. (submitted). Processing of complex grammar: Associations with cognitive functions. Language and Cognitive Processes.
  • Knecht, M. & Lidzba, K. (2016). Processing verbal morphology in patients with congenital left-hemispheric brain lesions. Brain and Language 157-158, 25-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.04.011
  • Hu, X., Ackermann, H., Martin, J. A., Erb, M., Winkler, S. & Reiterer, S. M. (2013). Language aptitude for pronunciation in advanced second language (L2) learners: Behavioural predictors and neural substrates. Brain Lang 127(3), 366-376. 
  • Lidzba, K., Konietzko, A., Schwilling, E., Krägeloh-Mann, I. & Winkler, S. (2013). Processing of non-canonical word-order: A case-series on lesion-induced reorganized language and age-effects in typical development. Brain and Language 127, 377-387.
  • Lidzba, K., Winkler, S. & Krägeloh-Mann, I. (Eds.) (2013). The neural and linguistic basis of language development. Brain and Language 127, 343-344. [Special Issue on "The neural and linguistic basis of language development".] dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2013.10.003
  • Konietzko, A., Schwilling, E., Lidzba, K., Krägeloh-Mann, I., Nickisch, S. & Winkler, S. (2012). Processing complex syntax in reorganized language. In S. Featherston (Ed.), Pre-Proceedings of the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence (pp. 249-253). Tübingen, 9-11 February 2012.
  • Lidzba, K., Staudt, M., Zieske, F., Schwilling, E. & Ackermann, H. (2012). Prestroke/poststroke fMRI in aphasia: Perilesional hemodynamic activation and language recovery. Neurology 78(4), 289-291.
  • Reiterer, S., Singh, N. C. & Winkler, S. (2012). Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically. In B. Stolterfoht & S. Featherston (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure (pp. 317-339). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Schwilling, E., Krägeloh-Mann, I., Konietzko, A., Winkler, S. & Lidzba, K. (2012). Testing the language of Germancerebral palsy patients with right hemispheric language organization after early left hemispheric damage. Clin Linguist Phon 26(2), 135-147.
  • Schwilling, E., Lidzba, K., Konietzko, A., Winkler, S. & Krägeloh-Mann, I. (2012). Language skills in patients with reorganized language. In B. Stolterfoht & S. Featherston (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure (pp. 291-316). Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • Ebner, K., Lidzba, K., Hauser T. K. & Wilke, M. (2011). Assessing language and visuospatial functions with one task: A "dual use" approach to performing fMRI in children. Neuroimage 58(3), 923-929.
  • Lidzba, K., Schwilling, E., Grodd, W., Krägeloh-Mann, I. & Wilke, M. (2011). Language comprehension vs. language production: Age effects on fMRI activation. Brain Lang 119(1), 6-15.
  • Reiterer, S., Hu, H., Erb, M., Rota, G., Nardo, D., Grodd, W., Winkler, S. & Ackermann, H. (2011). Individual differences in audio-vocal speech imitation aptitude in late bilinguals: Functional neuro-imaging and brain morphology. Front Psychol 2, 1-12.
  • Schwilling, E., Konietzko, A., Lidzba, K., Winkler, S. & Krägeloh-Mann, I. (2010). Pilotstudie zur Erfassung spezifischer Aspekte der Sprachverarbeitung bei Patienten mit läsionsinduziert rechtshemisphärischer Sprachreorganisation. In M. Wahl, C. Stahl, S. Hanne & T. Fritzsche (Eds.), Spektrum Patholinguistik 3 (pp. 175-180). Universitätsverlag Potsdam.