• DOI:10.1016/S0093-934X(75)80083-6
Corpus ID: 569044

The retrieval of syntax in Broca's aphasia

@article{Gleason1975TheRO,
  title={The retrieval of syntax in Broca's aphasia},
  author={J. B. Gleason and H. Goodglass and E. Green and Nancy Ackerman and Mary R. Hyde},
  journal={Brain and Language},
  year={1975},
  volume={2},
  pages={451-471}
}

J. B. Gleason, H. Goodglass, +2 authors Mary R. Hyde

Published 1975

Psychology, Medicine

Brain and Language

Eight Broca's aphasics at the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital were administered a story completion test, designed to elicit 14 different English syntactic constructions. The first scorable response to each test item was analyzed with respect to omission of obligatory elements. The patterns of error recorded a consistent order of difficulty of the constructions, as well as a variety of strategies employed by the subjects in attempting to compensate for their limitations in syntactic… CONTINUE READING

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