This paper reports the performances of two Cantonese aphasics on tasks examining their
sentence processing deficits. The data on sentence comprehension show that thematically
noncanonical sentences, full passives, and subject-gap sentences present greater difficulty
to these patients than canonical sentences, truncated passives, and object-gap sentences,
respectively. These patterns are consistent with previous observations on Chinese aphasics
and are expected given the structural differences between Chinese and English. In a …