The influence of word frequency on semantic word substitutions in aphasic namingFootnote

We would like to thank the aphasic patients for participating in this research, and the speech therapists for referring the patients to us. The idea to compare word frequency of the actual semantic errors and randomly chosen competitors came from an anonymous reviewer of a previous paper of our group. We are very grateful for this suggestion. We would like to thank Myrna Schwartz and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on a previous version of this paper.

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