Table 3.
Total number of errors per type for the Dutch and the English speaking agrammatic speakers
V-omission | Finiteness omission | Word order error | Other | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Matrix | Emb. | Matrix | Emb. | Matrix | Emb. | Matrix | Emb. | |
Dutcha | 25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
English | 5 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
One Dutch patient produced 10 matrix clauses with a so-called dummy verb (to do): deze jongen gooit de bal en deze jongen … doet de stok (this boy throws the ball and this boy … does the stick).