Table 1.
The left-hand column gives the order of omission of function words in agrammatic aphasic speakers extracted from Caramazza and Berndt (1985), the center column gives order of difficulty of function words for stutterers derived from Brown (1937) as described in the text and the right-hand column gives the activation levels at each extreme
| Caramazza and Berndt (1985) | From Brown (1937) | Activation |
|---|---|---|
| Hard (lost first) | Easy (least stuttering) | Low |
| Articles | Articles | |
| Auxiliaries | Prepositions | |
| Prepositions | Auxiliaries | |
| Pronouns | Pronouns | |
| Conjunctions | Conjunctions | |
| Easy | Hard | High |