Free associations of 10 aphasic and 10 matched normal Ss indicated that responses could identify two types of aphasic syndromes and that auditory presentation produced more mature responses, whereas pictures produced more label responses. Results also demonstrated that normal Ss produced a greater number of both paradigmatic and syntagmatic responses than aphasics.
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