Pronoun processing in post-stroke aphasia: A meta-analytic review of individual data

Pronouns constitute a heterogeneous class of linguistic elements, allowing for expression referential relationships. have an important place in daily communication which speakers and listeners rely heavily on for. Aphasia literature has evidenced that pronoun processing is impaired people with aphasia (PWA), although explanations underpinning impairments are mixed. To address this, through systematic review, we identified 42 studies examined (both production comprehension) 474 PWA across 16 different languages. An initial meta-analysis was conducted the overall data all conditions outcome measure indicating whether or not individually PWA. Further meta-analytic models were built to compare certain particular interest (e.g. reflexives vs object pronouns, subject wh-pronouns) attempt further disentangle behind their difficulty use. Outputs from our suggest that: (i) form impairment consistently present regardless type, fluency language spoken; (ii) variables show selectivity impairment, instance, better preserved over subject-advantage who-pronouns language-selective; (iii) other largely predict include aspects like argument position subject/object phrases, case marking, cliticization, presence relative clause constructions. These outputs discussed relation neurolinguistic hypotheses aphasia.