Verb retrieval in fluent aphasia: A clinical studyFootnote

We are grateful to the three participants and their practice partners, the speech and language therapists who referred participants, and Lizet Van Ewijk who helped with the analyses of the data. The project was funded by a University of Reading Health Research Fellowship.

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