Table 3.

Spontaneous speech features of control and treated aphasic participants pre-treatment, and of a sample of healthy speakers (n = 8): proportion (percent) verb-less utterances out of the total number of utterances; proportion of 1, 2 and 3-argument verbs out of all verbs produced.

Participant	% Verb-less utterance	% 1-Arg verbs	% 2-Arg verbs	% 3-Arg verbs
T1	51.2%	50%	50%	0%
T2	36%	25%	75%	0%
T3	81.1%	33.3%	66.7%	0%
T4	3%	25.6%	69.2%	5.1%
Mean (SD)	42.8% (32.5%)	33.5% (11.6%)	65.2% (10.7%)	1.3% (2.5%)
C1	33.3%	50%	50%	0%
C2	6.2%	19.7%	78.9%	1.3%
C3	22.6%	77.8%	22.2%	0%
C4	33.3%	0%	100%	0%
Mean (SD)	23.9% (12.8%)	36.9% (34.2%)	62.8% (33.9%)	.3% (.6%)
Mean (all patients) (SD)	33.3% (25.0%)	35.2% (23.7%)	64.0% (23.3%)	.8% (1.8%)
Healthy controls mean (SD)	.5% (1.3%)	31.6% (8.0%)	60.7% (7.8%)	7.7% (3.0%)