Verb and sentence production and comprehension in aphasia: Northwestern Assessment of Verbs and Sentences (NAVS)

Aphasiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1250-1277

  Cho Reyes, Soojin ^a   Thompson, Cynthia K ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrammatic aphasia; Anomic aphasia; Comprehension; Production; Sentence; Verb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARGUMENT STRUCTURE PRODUCTION TEST; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORTHWESTERN ASSESSMENT OF VERBS AND SENTENCES TEST; SENTENCE COMPREHENSION TEST; SENTENCE PRODUCTION PRIMING TEST; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERB COMPREHENSION TEST;

EID: 84866548161     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2012.693584     Document Type: Article

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