Elmore-Nicholas L, Brookshire R H
J Speech Hear Res. 1981 Jun;24(2):292-8. doi: 10.1044/jshr.2402.292.
Ten aphasic and ten non-brain-damaged subjects were asked to judge the truth of falsity of spoken comparative sentences. In one condition, pictures which contained the items being compared were presented, and in the other condition sentences were presented without accompanying pictures. Some of the pictures which accompanied the sentences depicted the comparative adjectives contained in the sentences, while other pictures simply illustrated the items being compared and gave no information about the comparative adjectives. Results of the experiment suggest that presenting pictures along with spoken sentences improves aphasic subjects' ability to judge the truth or falsity of those sentences. This facilitation occurs even when the pictures do not depict the relationships expressed by the comparative adjectives in the sentences.
十名失语症患者和十名非脑损伤受试者被要求判断口头比较句的真假。在一种情况下，呈现包含被比较项目的图片，在另一种情况下，呈现句子但不附带图片。一些与句子搭配的图片描绘了句子中包含的比较形容词，而其他图片只是说明了被比较的项目，没有提供关于比较形容词的信息。实验结果表明，与口头句子一起呈现图片可以提高失语症患者判断这些句子真假的能力。即使图片没有描绘句子中比较形容词所表达的关系，这种促进作用也会出现。
