Verb Tense Production in People With Nonfluent Aphasia Across Different Discourse Elicitation Tasks

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings revealed evidence of verb tense production deficits and a selective past tense impairment in people with nonfluent aphasia. Discourse task effects were shown for people without aphasia but were scarce in people with nonfluent aphasia. This finding could be explained by an overall reduction of verb production and overreliance on present tense production in nonfluent aphasia. These results suggest the potential methodological implications of using different discourse tasks to evaluate verb tense production in people with nonfluent aphasia. Future studies need to evaluate discourse task effects on other aspects of verb production (e.g., moods) and specific task factors (e.g., presence or absence of visual stimulus).SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.25146242.PMID:38324346 | DOI:10.1044/2024_AJSLP-23-00165
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research