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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aphasiology. 2021 Sep 21;36(12):1492–1519. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2021.1975636

Table 1.

List of Variables

Category Variable
Demographics sex
race
handedness
education
aphasia etiology
aphasia duration

Boston Naming Test total score

Verb Naming Test obligatory 1-place -- total
obligatory 2-place -- total
optional 2-place -- total
obligatory 3-place -- total
optional 3-place -- total
total score

AphasiaBank Repetition Test I.A. closed word list -- longest word string
I.B. open word list – span score, any order
I.B. open word list – span score, serial order
II.A. sentences – longest successful
II.A. sentences – # words correct
II.A. sentences – # readministered
II.B. sentences – # words correct
II.B. sentences – # readministered
II.B. sentences, no error -- # words correct
II.B. sentences, no error -- # readministered
II.B. sentences, semantic error -- # words correct
II.B. sentences, semantic error -- # readministered
II.B. sentences, interference effect-- # words correct
II.B. sentences, interference effect -- # readministered
II.B. sentences, interference effect -- # commands followed
II.B. sentences, interference effect -- # questions answered
Discourse measures duration
 -Free speech total utterances
 -Picture descriptions mean length of utterance (MLU) in words
 -Cinderella story total words
 -Procedural words per minute
moving average type-token ratio (MATTR)
idea density
noun_verb ratio
open_closed class ratio
# and % open class words
# and % closed class words
# of revisions
# of repetitions
# and % of utterances with revisions
# and % of utterances with repetitions
# and % of utterances with revisions and/or repetitions
# and % word errors (including repetitions and revisions)
# morphological errors (including repetitions and revisions)
# morphological errors missing an obligatory marker
# and % neologistic errors (including repetitions and revisions)
# and % phonemic errors (including repetitions and revisions)
# and % semantic errors (including repetitions and revisions)
# dysfluencies in words (including repetitions and revisions)
% morphological errors (of all errors)
# unintelligible segments
# fillers
fillers per minute
fillers per words (including repetitions and revisions)
# sound fragments
% nouns
% verbs
% determiners
% prepositions
% adjectives
% adverbs
% conjunctions
% pronouns
# and % utterances coded as jargon