The Nature of Lexical-Semantic Access in Bilingual Aphasia

Table 4

Mean correct words on the category generation task, mean semantic cluster scores, and mean semantic switching scores for bilingual normal controls and bilinguals with aphasia (standard deviations are in parenthesis).

Group	Correct words		Mean semantic cluster score		Mean semantic switching score		Mean ratio of correct words to semantic switches
	English	Spanish	English	Spanish	English	Spanish	English	Spanish
Controls	29.70 (9.10)	24.36 (6.18)	2.07 (0.86)	1.47 (0.50)	8.94 (2.53)	9.75 (2.89)	3.36 (0.81)	2.55 (0.41)
Patients	4.60 (5.90)	5.87 (4.24)	0.36 (0.41)	0.41 (0.36)	5.10 (3.84)	3.93 (2.54)	1.06 (0.84)	1.58 (0.65)