Sentence analysis in broca’s aphasia

Abstract

This study tries to explore the sentences used by a person with Broca’s Aphasia in terms of type and syntactical structure. The goal of this study is to find and describe several important elements that have been said above. Based upon this, this study is a field research using descriptive qualitative research design. By this consideration, the data collection method used in this study is the participatory observation method combined with the Record and Report Technique and the Unstructured Interview Technique. In analyzing data, this study employed Intralingual Matching Method as a data analysis method accompanied by the informal and formal method as the method of data presentation. Thus, the findings resulted from this study are (1) 111 declarative clauses, (2) 32 interrogative clauses, and (3) 5 imperative clauses. Meanwhile, in terms of syntactical structure, there are only 11 sentence patterns that can be produced, namely S-K, K-S, P-K, S-P, P-O, K-P, S-P-K, K-S-P, P-S-K, K-O, K-P-O, and K-P-S.