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Wernicke’s aphasics usually execute the mechanics of writing easily with their dominant hand-in cursive, well-formed letters-showing an analogy to their facile articulation of speech. Moreover, their writing shows the same propensity for semantic paraphasia, neologistic jargon, and paragrammatic sentence forms, as does their speech. The writing, however, is reduced in speed and quantity from normal levels. The narrative writing of Wernicke’s aphasics has shorter runs of grammatically coherent words than does their speech. At the same time, the repetitious use of low-information verbs and vague nouns is reduced in their writing as compared with their speech (Goodglass & Hunter, 1970).
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