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Background: Familiar collocations (e.g., “it’s alright”) are an important part of everyday conversation. Such word combinations are often retained in speakers with Broca’s aphasia. However, only fe...

Background: Reliance on formulaic language, i.e., holistically processed multiword chunks, is claimed to distinguish speakers with aphasia, speakers with right-hemisphere damage (RHD), and neurotypical controls (NC). Frequency and collocation strength of word combinations are indicators of formulaic language.Aims: We aimed to determine frequency and collocation properties of spoken production, as indicators of formulaic language, in people with aphasia, speakers with RHD and NC.Methods and Procedures: We used computerized methods to investigate spontaneous language in 40 speakers: 10 with fluent aphasia (fA), 10 with non-fluent aphasia (nfA), 10 with RHD, and 10 NC. Our analysis not only focused on frequency and collocation strength of grammatical combinations as markers of formulaic language (using the British National Corpus as reference), but also looked at word frequency, language fluency, proportion of content words, and measures of lexical and combinatorial diversity.Outcomes and Results: Bo...