Table 3.

Narrative summaries of the Cinderella sample

	Broca's aphasia	Agrammatic aphasiaa	Wernicke's aphasia	Normal controla
Total words	114.5 (66.27)	114.86 (50.61)	195.4 83.29	323.71 (113.57)
Words/min	33.6 (11.5)	—	120.54 (19.1)	—
MLU	4.33 (1.25)	4.5 (1.57)	5.6 (1.1)	14.47 (2.203)
% grammatical sentences	0.32 (0.2)	0.154 (0.129)	0.51 (0.26)	0.898 (0.08)
% simple sentences	0.87 (0.16)	0.804 (0.183)	0.75 (0.1)	0.425 (0.169)
% complex sentences	0.13 (0.16)	0.196 (0.183)	0.25 (0.1)	0.575 (0.169)
Noun–verb ratio	2.58 (1.67)	1.52 (0.70)	0.62 (0.14)	1.21 (0.25)
Open–closed class ratio	1.69 (0.6)	2.23 (1.19)	0.77 (0.37)	0.91 (0.08)

^aThompson et al. (1995): based on a corpus of five agrammatic aphasic and five normal subjects narrating the Cinderella story.