Previous research has found that verb argument structure characteristics (such as the
number of participant roles in the situation described by the verb) can facilitate or hinder …

Background Given the integral role that verbs play in sentence production, understanding
verb deficits is critical to clinical practice. Difficulties in sentence production are often directly …

Background: Verb difficulties in aphasia often co-occur with difficulties specifying argument
structure of the sentence. Recent exploration of verb and argument structure deficits has …

Background: Some individuals with agrammatic aphasia have difficulty producing verbs
when naming and generating sentences (Miceli, Silveri, Villa, & Caramazza, 1984; Saffran …

Background: The study explores the ability of fluent and non-fluent aphasic patients to
produce verbs using the appropriate argument structure, ie, a feature specifying the number …

Results Aphasic participants, as expected, showed overall patterns of longer speech onset
latency and reduced accuracy in their sentence production attempts, as compared to normal …

Sentence and discourse analysis research provides evidence of both impaired and intact
ability in verb production in aphasia, based on comparisons made within aphasic subtypes …

Background: Many aphasia assessments and therapies select and/or sequence verbs
based on linguistic complexity of their verb argument structure (VAS). However, further …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how people with nonfluent aphasia
produce semantically weighted verbs compared to people without aphasia, as well as how a …

This study examined verb and verb argument structure production in 10 agrammatic aphasic
and 10 non-brain-damaged subjects. Production of six types of verbs was examined in two …