Sixty-one people with aphasia (pwa) (age 64.2 + 12.9 years; education 15.3 + 3.2 years; M:F =44:17) with single left hemisphere strokes and forty-six age and education matched controls weretested for the ability to understand 13 sentence types (Table 1) in a sentence-picture matching task ina word-by-word self paced listening (SPL) format. Effects of local syntactic load were assessed bycomparing SPL times, corrected for segment length and lexical frequency, at critical segments inexperimental and baseline sentences (Tables 1 and 2).
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