agrammatic
Adjective
Meaning
agrammatic (comparative more agrammatic, superlative most agrammatic)
Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
Examples
For example, only 75% of agrammatic aphasiacs would comprehend the reversible active sentence, “The actor applauded the dancer” accurately, due to the atypical scenario that the sentence describes.
This is often not an issue for people without agrammatic aphasias, but many aphasics rely very heavily on word order to understand roles that words play within the sentence.
It is possible that people with agrammatic aphasia rely on a heuristic based on the canonical word order of English.
Reversible passive sentences such as “The actor was applauded by the dancer” are even more complex and difficult to comprehend, and were only found to be accurately understood by 50% of tested agrammatic aphasiacs in one study.