Syntactic Recognition in Aphasics

Abstract

The present study was designed to investigate the process of syntactic recognition of heard sentences in aphasics, especially the effect of changes in word order on syntactic recognition. Comprehension performance of 27 aphasics was studied by using two types cf active and passive test senteces; sentences having basic word order and sentences having converse word order. The results comfirmed earlier observations reporting that comprehension of sentences having converse word order was significantly poorer than comprehension of sentences having basic word order. It was suggested that there were two strategies employed by aphasics; the word order strategy and the particle strategy. Subjects were classified into four groups according to ability to use the strategies. The correlation between the syntactic comprehension and the other variables was discussed. © 1977, The Japan Society of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. All rights reserved.