Verb and Noun Production in Aphasia: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic

摘要

Verbs and sentence production are usually impaired in individuals diagnosed with Broca’s aphasia. The current study investigates verb-noun production in a sample of spontaneous speech produced by four male Palestinian agrammatic aphasics. The results clearly revealed the dissociation between the production of nouns and the production of verbs. They also demonstrate that agrammatic aphasics produce nouns more than verbs. This finding has support from other studies conducted on other languages. The results also suggest that verb processing deficits among Broca’s aphasics can be interpreted in terms of semantic and syntactic complexity. However, the findings should only be regarded as preliminary in an area where further investigations are required, using larger number of subjects and stimuli in order to have a better understanding of the nature of language deficitsamong Palestinian agrammatics.