... They pad out their speech by reproducing phrases and words. They also use a lot of function words, but not always in their correct context. Their utterances are very short, often about one word long, four words is about their limit. Their auditory comprehension is better, but shows impairment for complex sentences. Conduction aphasia spontaneous speech is fluent, although they do suffer from word finding difficulties therefore speech output rate is not as fast as normal. Their auditory comprehension is said to be better then Broca's patients and their reading comprehension is good. The major deficit associated with these patients is the repetition of spoken language, which is unevenly impaired relative to comprehension and spontaneous speech. Functional words and inflections. Studies with groups of patients who's speech is agrammatic have shown that omission, or retention of function words and inflections is not random but is influenced by a ...

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