A linguistic comparison of speech and writing in two types of aphasia

Abstract Samples of free narrative obtained in speech and writing from a Wernicke's and a Broca's aphasic showed the same contrasting features in both media of expression. The Wernicke's aphasic was more fluent grammatically and had a greater proportion of non-picturable nouns and verbs. The quality of grammatical errors was similar in both media with the Wernicke's aphasic making many more semantically based errors. Both patients showed a reduced proportion of verbs to nouns in writing as compared to speech and particularly a reduction in the high-frequency non-picturable verbs which occur in the filler-phrases of conversation.

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