Understanding Syntax Structure of Language After a Head Injury.

Cognitive-communication disorder is a type of language alteration generally associated with a traumatic brain injury, but could also be a sequelae from a disease. There is a latent possibility of establishing a connection between the ongoing epidemic language alterations sequelae with those reorganization in language after a head trauma that includes modifications in syntax production process. From a set of syntax indices previously elaborated to study language development, we propose a grammar-based analysis of such indices allowing a depiction in terms of a triangle-segmented polygon. A finding of the analysis is that the suggested context-free grammar gives the resources to have a suitable representation of the construction of the syntax production in individuals after a traumatic brain injury, in a post-recovery stage. The produced maps could serve to interpret how rules, when demanding more complexity, progress in contrast with a negative sample.