Colloque - Naama Friedmann : Seeing Syntax Everywhere: Syntactic Theory, Language Impairments, and the Brain

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Part 2: Training and Educating the Brain

Seeing Syntax Everywhere: Syntactic Theory, Language Impairments, and the Brain

Colloque - Naama Friedmann : Seeing Syntax Everywhere: Syntactic Theory, Language Impairments, and the Brain

Naama Friedmann

Résumé

A key notion in linguistics is that of syntactic movement. I will show that this notion and the further theoretical observations and generalizations regarding movement are useful in accounting for language impairments. I will describe syntactic impairments of various sources: acquired (following stroke, tumour, tumor resection), developmental, and neurodegenerative (progressive aphasia, Parkinson's Disease, Machado Joseph Ataxia), and show how useful a good syntactic theory is in assessing, describing, and treating these impairments.