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Published in final edited form as: J Neurolinguistics. 2003 Mar;16(2-3):151–167. doi: 10.1016/S0911-6044(02)00014-3

Table 2.

Verbs produced by type in narrative samples for aphasic and normal, non-brain-damaged subjects

Verb type	Mean (SD)
	Aphasic subjects	Normal subjects
Obligatory one-place	0.23 (0.08)	0.10 (0.04)
Unaccusative	0.01 (0.007)	0.22 (0.07)
Unergative	0.99 (0.01)	0.81 (0.11)
Obligatory two-place	0.19 (0.06)	0.17 (0.03)
Optional two-place	0.18 (0.13)	0.17 (0.04)
Obligatory three-place	0.0 (0.0)	0.03 (0.01)
Optional three-place	0.07 (0.03)	0.13 (0.03)
Complement	0.11 (0.07)	0.30 (0.06)
Copula	0.22 (0.12)	0.12 (0.03)
Verbs with correct arguments	0.35 (0.13)	0.94 (0.37)