Genre, verb, and coherence in picture‐elicited discourse of adults with aphasia

Characteristics of Swahili–English bilingual agrammatic spontaneous speech and the consequences for understanding agrammatic aphasia

“…The participant was first asked to describe the picture and then to make a story around it with a beginning, a middle and an end. Olness (2006) showed that when aphasic speakers are asked to tell a story rather than to describe a picture, more variation in verb forms occurs. Since our main interest was in the use of verbs and verb inflection for time reference, this seemed to be an appropriate method.…”

“…For elicitation of narrative speech, the methods of Olness (2006) were used. Two pictures have been used, the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph by Annie Wells of a girl being rescued from the water by a fireman and the cookie theft picture from the BDAE (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1972).…”

A characterization of verb use in Turkish agrammatic narrative speech

“…Afterwards, the participants were asked to tell a story on the basis of two pictures. To elicit those stories, the questions in (B) were asked sequentially for each picture, based on Olness (2006). The pictorial materials used were the 'cookie theft' picture (Goodglass & Kaplan, 1972) and the 'flood rescue' picture, a Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Annie Wells.…”

“…Moreover, these pictures are well established among aphasiology studies. Since different genres have been shown to elicit different verb forms (Armstrong, 2000;Olness, 2006), different elicitation tasks were preferred in order to maximize the variation in verbs. …”

“…On the other hand, Anjarningsih et al (2012) and Abuom and Bastiaanse (2012) administered interview tasks to Indonesian and SwahiliEnglish agrammatic speakers, respectively, and analysed extracted samples containing a fixed number of words. Moreover, Olness (2006) elicited different discourse types (such as a picture description and storytelling) from a group of English-speaking agrammatic speakers and analysed these discourse types comparatively. Conclusions from these studies show that the production of lexical verbs in agrammatic narrative speech is impaired, no matter whether the production is measured by verb-to-noun ratios or by type-token ratios.…”