摘要：Historically, patients with lesions in Broca’s area have been characterized as having “telegraphic” speech output and concomitant deficits in the comprehension of syntactically-complex sentences. Later research has shown that a much larger lesion is required to produce this disorder - neighbouring parts of the frontal and superior temporal lobes, as well as underlying structures and white matter - and that Broca’s area need not necessarily be involved. To further examine the syntactic output potential of patients with lesions to Broca’s area, we examined the oral productive speech in patients who, despite a lesion in Broca’s area, were able to produce complex syntactic structures in their oral speech. We questioned the extent to which these patients could produce these structures and what types of constructions they were able to use.
