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A Study on Semantical Errors in Understanding Verbs of Patients with Broca’s aphasia

&nbsp;&nbsp;This study was to examine semantic characteristics in inability of patients with Broca’s aphasia in their understanding of verbs, by categorizing verbs from a semantic perspective. Verbs implying physical movements were classified as dynamic verbs and compared with stative verbs in order to investigate whether patients with Broca’s aphasia had a significant difference in their understanding of dynamic and stative verbs.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The results were as follows ;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Firstly, Patients with Broca’s aphasia had a significant difference in their understanding of dynamic and stative verbs; they were found to better understand dynamic verbs than stative ones.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Secondly, Patients with Broca’s aphasia were found to have no significant difference by position in their understanding of verbs positioned before or after uninflected words.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Thirdly, In the analysis of the ratio of 3 types of errors such as semantically-associated words, phonemically-associated words, and non-associated words, most errors were found in semantically-associated words; in place of target words, participating patients were more likely to choose semantically-associated words with target ones.