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Bernard A J Jap¹, Roelien Bastiaanse²

¹Department of Humanities, Language and Translation, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Kowloon, Hong Kong. bajjap@hkmu.edu.hk.

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Agrammatic aphasia speakers of Standard Indonesian produced active and passive sentences equally well. This suggests syntactic frequency aids sentence processing, preserving passive structures.

Keywords:

Agrammatism Passives Sentence production Standard Indonesian Syntactic frequency Word order

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Clinical Linguistics

Background:

Individuals with agrammatic aphasia often struggle with non-canonical sentence production.
Deficits are linked to verb morphology or thematic role assignment.
Agrammatic Indonesian speakers show preserved passive construction use and comprehension, possibly due to high frequency.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of syntactic frequency and word order on sentence production in agrammatic speakers of Standard Indonesian.
To assess sentence production accuracy for active and passive, reversible and non-reversible sentences.

Main Methods:

A picture elicitation task was used.
Twelve agrammatic speakers of Standard Indonesian participated.
Participants produced active and passive, reversible and non-reversible sentences.

Main Results:

No significant differences in accuracy were found between active and passive, or reversible and non-reversible sentences.
The majority of errors involved role-reversals and verb inflection.
Agrammatic speakers did not show a specific deficit in producing non-canonical word orders.

Conclusions:

Syntactic frequency appears to influence sentence processing in agrammatic aphasia.
Results support the preservation of passive structures in agrammatic Indonesian speakers.
The findings align with previous research on Indonesian sentence comprehension.