Dysphasic Speech Responses to Visual Word Stimuli

Abstract

Speech behavior of 31 dysphasic subjects was investigated in terms of parts of speech, level of abstraction, length and frequency of occurrence in written English usage. Dysphasics make more errors on adjectives than on either verbs or nouns, more on long words than on short, more on words of both high and low abstraction level than on those of medium level, and more on words occurring infrequently in the language than on those occurring frequently.