Phonic Trends in the Writing of Aphasic Patients

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
This investigation analysed errors in predictive responses of 18 aphasic subjects, and sought the causes of the errors. Each subject typed 18 words in response to two kinds of stimuli: (a) sentences with the final word lacking; and (b) pictures displayed manually. Results showed that: (a) incorrect predictions were in keeping with the statistics of occurrence in English; (b) vowels were usually predicted where vowels were appropriate, and consonants where consonants were appropriate, and letters pronounced with less sound pressure levels were less likely to be predicted incorrectly; and (c) the most frequent errors occurred in the medial positions of the words. The results also showed that two major causes of the errors were perseveration on recently used letters and anticipation of letters on the remainder of the word.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: