Table 3.

Statistical comparisons of connected speech measures and standard language measures

Patients Time points	All 43 patients Pre vs post		14 non-aphasic post Pre vs post		29 aphasic post Pre vs post		24 aphasic post Post vs 1-month		24 aphasic post Pre vs 1-month
	p	q	p	q	p	q	p	q	p	q
Words per minute	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.455	0.546	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.002	0.004 **	0.039	0.077
Phonological errors (log phw)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.027	0.165	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.130	0.142	0.007	0.044 *
Impaired lexical access (log phw)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.101	0.172	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.001	0.003 **	0.007	0.044 *
Words per utterance	0.001	0.001 **	0.364	0.485	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	1.000	1.000
Embeddings (phw)	< 0.001	0.009 **	0.198	0.297	0.015	0.015 *	0.022	0.030 *	1.000	1.000
Morphosyntactic errors (log phw)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.062	0.172	< 0.001	0.001 **	0.016	0.024 *	0.150	0.180
Proportion closed class	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.094	0.172	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.006	0.012 *	0.110	0.147
Filled pauses (log phw)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	1.000	1.000	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.013	0.022 *	0.022	0.054
False starts (log phw)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.059	0.172	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.040	0.048 *	0.045	0.077
Retraced sequences (log phw)	0.002	0.002 **	0.093	0.172	0.005	0.006 **	1.000	1.000	0.018	0.054
Aphasia Quotient (AQ, 100)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.022	0.165	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.001	0.003 **	0.081	0.121
Boston Naming Test (BNT, 15)	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	1.000	1.000	< 0.001	< 0.001 ***	0.001	0.003 **	0.014	0.054

Significance after correction for false discovery rate:

^*q ≤ 0.05

^**q ≤ 0.01

^***q ≤ 0.001.