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Speech-language pathology

the hypothesis that agrammatic speakers lose access to the higher nodes of the syntactic tree, so tense and higher structure fail while lower agreement survives.

In speech-language pathology, tree pruning hypothesis refers to the hypothesis that agrammatic speakers lose access to the higher nodes of the syntactic tree, so tense and higher structure fail while lower agreement survives. This meaning comes from Friedmann (1997) in Brain and Language.[1]

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References

Friedmann, N., & Grodzinsky, Y. (1997). Tense and Agreement in Agrammatic Production: Pruning the Syntactic Tree. Brain and Language, 56(3), 397-425. https://doi.org/10.1006/brln.1997.1795

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