Corpus-Based Transitivity Biases in Individuals with Aphasia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study investigated whether individuals with aphasia (IWA) retain verb biases in expressive language. Verb biases refer to the likelihood that a given verb will occur in different sentence structures. We focused on the likelihood of verbs occurring in transitive and intransitive structures.

Aims

The main goal of this study was to determine whether IWA and controls show similar verb biases or whether IWA show a preference for transitive or intransitive structures that supersedes individual verb biases. We also investigated whether IWA show a preference for intransitively or transitively biased verbs, whether verb biases differ as a function of aphasia type, and how verb bias affects errors in IWA's speech production.

Methods

The current study analyzed 23

SUBMITTER: DiLallo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5926238 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature