Yosef Grodzinsky's currently available papers in PDF

updated April, 2013

 

Newest

Reviews and Opinion Articles

A fairly recent co-edited book

Neuroimaging of Syntax

Syntax-Semantics

Syntax in Aphasia

General Neuropsychology

The Variability Debate in Neuropsychology

The Acquisition of Syntax

 

Newest  

Grodzinsky, Y. The mirror theory of language: a neurolinguist’s perspective. To appear as chapter 19 in Montserrat Sanz, Itziar Laka, Michael Tanenhaus (eds.),

Language Down the Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis for Linguistic Structure, Oxford University Press, 2013. pdf

 

Makuuchi, M., Grodzinsky, Y., Amunts, K., Santi, A., & Friederici, A. D. 2013. Processing non-canonical sentences in Broca's region: Reflections of movement distance and type.

Cerebral Cortex 23 (3), pp. 694-702. pdf

 

Heim, Stefan, Katrin Amunts, Dan Drai, Simon B. Eickhoff, Sarah Hautvast and Yosef Grodzinsky. 2012. The language–number interface in the brain: a complex parametric study 

of quantifiers and quantities. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neurosciences, 4.4. pdf

 

Grodzinsky, Yosef. Forthcoming. Two puzzles in experimental syntax and semantics. CLS 47, University of chicago. pdf

 

Reviews and Opinion Articles

Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2010. The picture of the linguistic brain: how sharp can it be? Reply to Fedorenko & Kanwisher. Language & Linguistic Compass, 4/8, pp. 605-622. pdf

Grodzinsky, Yosef & Andrea Santi. 2008. The battle for Broca’s region. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12.12, 474-480. pdf

         See also a letter from R. Willems & P Hagoort’s in TICS 13.3, p. 101, and our reply:

Grodzinsky, Yosef & Andrea Santi. 2009. Reply to Willems & Hagoort: an imperfect theory gets you further than random facts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13.3, p. 102.  pdf

Grodzinsky, Yosef. 2007. La syntaxe générative dans le cerveau. In J. Bricmont & J. Franck, eds. Cahier Chomsky. Paris: L’Herne, pp. 169-178. [English Translation as “Generative syntax in the brain” in Bricmont & Franck, eds., Chomsky Notebook. New York:  Columbia University Press, 2010]. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2006. A blueprint for a brain map of syntax . In Y. Grodzinsky & K. Amunts, eds., Broca’s Region.  New York: Oxford University Press. pdf

Grodzinsky, Yosef & Angela Friederici. 2006. Neuroimaging of syntax and syntactic processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 16.2, pp. 240-246. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2006. The language faculty, Broca’s region, and the mirror system. Cortex, 42.4, pp. 464-468 [special issue on “integrative models of broca’s area and the ventral premotor cortex”. Ricarda I. Schubotz & Christian J. Fiebach, guest editors]. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2004. Variation in Broca’s region: preliminary cross-methodological comparisons. In Lyle Jenkins, ed., Variation and Universals in Biolinguistics. Oxford: Elsevier. pdf

A fairly recent co-edited book

Grodzinsky, Yosef & Katrin Amunts, eds. Broca’s Region.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Neuroimaging of syntax

Santi, Andrea and Yosef Grodzinsky.2012. Broca’s area and sentence comprehension: A relationship parasitic on dependency, displacement or predictability? Neuropsychologia, 50, pp. 821– 832. pdf

Santi, Andrea & Yosef Grodzinsky. 2010. fMRI adaptation dissociates syntactic complexity dimensions. NeuroImage, 51, pp. 1285-1293. pdf

Santi, Andrea & Yosef Grodzinsky. 2007. Working memory and syntax interact in Broca's area. NeuroImage, 37, pp. 8–17. pdf

Santi, Andrea & Yosef Grodzinsky. 2007. Taxing Working Memory with Syntax: Bi-hemispheric Modulations. Human Brain Mapping, 28, pp. 1089-1097. pdf

                                                                              Supplementary material – all stimuli, instructions, and patient descriptions: pdf

Ben-Shachar, M . D. Palti & Y. Grodzinsky. 2004. Neural correlates of syntactic movement: Converging evidence from two fMRI experiments. NeuroImage, 21, pp. 1320-1336. pdf

Ben-Shachar M., Hendler T., Kahn I., Ben-Bashat D., Peled S. and Grodzinsky Y. 2003. The Neural Reality of Grammatical Transformations: Evidence from fMRI. Psychological Science, 14.5, pp. 433-440. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2003. Imaging the Grammatical Brain. In M. Arbib, ed., Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition, 551-556. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2002. Neurolinguistics and Neuroimaging: Forward to the Future, or is it Back? Psychological Science, 13, pp. 189-193.  pdf

Syntax-Semantics

Grodzinsky, Y. 2007. Coreference and self-ascription. Ms. McGill University. pdf

Syntax in Aphasia

Poirier, Josée, Lewis P. Shapiro, Tracy Love & Yosef Grodzinsky. 2009. The On-line Processing of Verb-phrase Ellipsis in Aphasia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38.3, pp. 237-254. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2005. Syntactic dependencies as memorized sequences in the brain. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, special 50^th anniversary issue. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2000. The neurology of syntax: language use without Broca's area. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23.1, pp. 1-71. Target Article, with 36 commentaries and author's response. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 2000. OverArching Agrammatism. In Grodzinsky, Y., L. Shapiro & D. Swinney, eds., 2000. Language and the Brain. San Diego: Academic Press. pdf

Balogh, J. & Grodzinsky, Y. 2000. Levels of linguistic representation in broca's aphasia: Implicitness and referentiality of arguments R. Bastiaanse & Y. Grodzinsky, eds., Grammatical disorders in aphasia: a neurolinguistic perspective. London: Whurr Publishers. pdf

Friedmann, N. & Grodzinsky, Y. 2000. Split inflection in neurolinguistics. In M.-A. Friedemann & L. Rizzi, eds., The acquisition of syntax. London: Longmans. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. & Finkel, L. 1998. The neurology of empty categories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10.2, pp. 281-292. pdf

Friedmann, N. & Grodzinsky, Y. 1997. Tense and Agreement in agrammatic production: Pruning the syntactic tree. Brain & Language, 56, pp. 397-425. pdf  (Also available in Hungarian, translated and published by the Hungarian Academy of Science)

Grodzinsky, Y. 1995. Trace deletion, theta-roles, and cognitive strategies. Brain & Language, 51, pp. 467-497. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 1995. A restrictive theory of agrammatic comprehension. Brain & Language, 51, pp. 26-51. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. A. Pierce & S. Marakovitz. 1991. Neurpopsychological reasons for a transformational analysis of verbal passive. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 9, 431-453. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y., Wexler, K., Chien, Y.-C., Marakovitz, S. & Solomon, J. 1993. The breakdown of binding relations. Brain & Language, 45.3, pp. 396-422. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 1989. Agrammatic comprehension of relative clauses. Brain & Language, 37, pp. 480-499. pdf

Grodzinsky Y. & A. Marek. Algorithmic and heuristic processes revisited. Brain & Language, 33, pp. 216-225. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. Syntactic representations in agrammatism: The case of prepositions. Language & Speech, 31.2, pp. 115-134. pdf

Grodzinsky Y. 1986. Cognitive deficits, their proper description and its theoretical relevance. Brain & Language, 27, pp. 178-191. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. 1986. Language deficits and the theory of syntax. Brain & Language, 27, pp. 135-159. pdf

Grodzinsky, Yosef, David Swinney & Edgar B. Zurif. 1985. Agrammatism: Structural characterizations and antecedent processing disruptions. In M.-L. Kean (Ed.): Agrammatism, pp. 65-81. New York: Academic Press. pdf

An Old (though not aged) book

Grodzinsky, Y. 1990. Theoretical Perspectives on Language Deficits. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

General Neuropsychology

Etcheverry, Louise, Barbara Seidel, Marion Grande, Stephanie Schulte, Peter Pieperhoff, Martin Südmeyer, Martina Minnerop, Ferdinand Binkofski, Walter Huber, Yosef Grodzinsky, Katrin Amunts & Stefan Heim.  2012. The time course of neurolinguistic and neuropsychological symptoms in three cases of logopenic primary progressive aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1708-1718. pdf

Friedmann, Na’ama & Yosef Grodzinsky. 1994. A linguistic approach to developmental dyslexia. Brain & Cognition, 26, pp. 249-254. pdf

The Variability Debate in Neuropsychology

Recent

Target article, with 6 commentaries:

Drai, D., Grodzinsky, Y. 2006. A new empirical angle on the variability debate: Quantitative neurosyntactic analyses of a large data set from Broca’s Aphasia. Brain & Language, 76.2, 117-128. pdf . See Data sets for supporting material.

Reply to commentaries:

Drai, D., Grodzinsky, Y. 2006. The variability debate: More statistics, more linguistics. Brain & Language, 76.2, 157-170. pdf

Previous

Drai, D., Grodzinsky, Y. & Zurif, E. 2001. Broca's aphasia is associated with a single pattern of comprehension performance. Brain & Language, 76, pp. 185-192. pdf

Drai, D. & Grodzinsky, Y. 1999. Syntactic regularity in Broca's aphasia: there's more of it than you ever imagined. Brain & Language, 70, pp. 139-143. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y., Pinango, M., Zurif, E. & Drai, D. 1999. The critical role of group studies in neuropsychology: comprehension regularities in Broca's aphasia. Brain & Language, 67, pp. 134-147. pdf

Some past work on cross-linguistic variation and aphasic language production:

Grodzinsky, Y. 1984. The syntactic characterization of agrammatism. Cognition, 20, 99-120. pdf

Zurif, E. & Y. Grodzinsky. 1983. Sensitivity to grammatical structure in agrammatic aphasics: A reply to Linebarger et al. Cognition, 15, pp. 207-213. pdf

The Acquisition of Syntax

Fox, D. & Grodzinsky, Y. 1998. Children's passive: a view from the by-phrase. Linguistic Inquiry, 29.2, pp. 311-332. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. & G. Kave. 1993. Do children really know Condition A? Language Acquisition, 3(1), pp. 41-54. pdf

Grodzinsky, Y. & T. Reinhart. 1993. The innateness of binding and of coreference. Linguistic Inquiry, 24.1, pp. 69-101. pdf