An Utterance Analysis of Conversat ions and Picture Description Tasks of Korean Adults

Lee, Young Mi; Kim, Hyanghee

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Commun Sci Disord. 2001;6(1): 1-11.

Young Mi Lee^` , and Hyanghee Kim^`

이영미(Young Mi Lee)| 김향희(Hyanghee Kim)

ABSTRACT

We utilize convers ation and pictur e des cr iption tasks in evaluating the natur e of spoken language ability of aphas ic patients . T o cons truct the tasks , however , we ar e in need of normative data of normal adults . We gather ed speech s amples of 46 normal Kor ean adults (men : women=10 :36, mean age=58.0 , mean years of education=9.17) us ing convers ation and pictur e des cr iption tasks of the K-WAB(Kor ean Vers ion - The Wes tern Aphas ia Battery). We s tr atified the normals into men and women , five education gr oups , and thr ee age gr oups . Speech s amples wer e analyzed us ing 2 1 var iables . Two tasks wer e found to be s ignificantly differ in the following eight var iables : (1) the number of content wor ds per utter ance(p