American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Quantitative Production Analysis (QPA)

Author(s):Rita Sloan Berndt, Sarah Wayland, Elizabeth Rochon, Eleanor Saffran, and Myrna Schwartz
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Psychology Press
Year:2000
Age Range:Not available
Administration Time:Not available
Language(s):English
Computerized Scoring:No
Description:Characterizes aspects of aphasic sentence production. The analysis system is carried out on samples of narrative speech elicited from aphasic patients in a storytelling format. Irrelevant and/or nonpropositional content is omitted according to stated criteria, and the resulting sample is analyzed on the basis of a number of structural and morphological indices.

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