摘要Language training for nonfluent aphasia (NFA) patients may increase their verbal expression of unfamiliar words.Some therapies aimed at the improvement of cognitive functions can facilitate the recovery of NFA patients' damaged linguistic functions.Some studies have shown that with music cues NFA patients could fluently sing their familiar songs but could not read the lyrics,consistent with studies of proverbs and prayer.1 Our previous research has shown that highly related voice cues can improve NFA patients' verbal expression.2 These results indicate that the improvement of NFA patients' speech production may benefit from regaining the extraction of phonological encoding that has already been preserved in memory,rather than re-study of the language.