Normative Objective And Subjective Properties Of The Word And The Successfulness Of Its Production By Patients With Aphasia
The article explores the correlations between the objective (word length in phonemes, in syllables, and word frequency) and the subjective (age of acquisition, imagery) properties of the word and its faculty to articulation in oral speech of patients with aphasia during their speech therapy course. The data corpus is built on the basis of, firstly, scripts of 14 video and audio recordings of 13 Russian patients with aphasia collected during their speech therapy course, and, secondly, the information about properties of Russian verbs and nouns from the library of verbal and visual stimuli «Verb and action» and «Noun and object». The classification of the words from the corpus and their statistic processing has shown that: 1) verbs’ and nouns’ properties manifest considerable and regular differences, on the level of morphology especially; 2) word length doesn’t seem a crucial factor that determines its easy production by patients with aphasia; 3) the paraphasia affects longue words with late age of acquisition; 4) the words that are easily produced in aphasic speech were acquired in the age of 1,6-1,7 year, they have a low level of imagery (1,1-1,3) and the length of 5,37-5,5 phonemes.