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Phonology as human behavior

Comparing and contrasting phonological processes in adult dysarthria and first language acquisition
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Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) may lead to dysarthria which is caused by weakness of the articulatory musculature. This paper investigates Polish TBI dysarthric speakers (n = 6) and matched controls with normal speech (n = 10). The data were transcribed in narrow phonetic transcription and analyzed acoustically. Three TBI subjects were diagnosed with moderate dysarthria and three with mild dysarthria. The results show that the patients regress to some degree in their articulation to the level of first language (L1) acquisition in general and they use many processes which appear in child’s speech in particular. However, some of these processes have been defined as idiosynchratic in L1 acquisition while others do not appear at all.

Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) may lead to dysarthria which is caused by weakness of the articulatory musculature. This paper investigates Polish TBI dysarthric speakers (n = 6) and matched controls with normal speech (n = 10). The data were transcribed in narrow phonetic transcription and analyzed acoustically. Three TBI subjects were diagnosed with moderate dysarthria and three with mild dysarthria. The results show that the patients regress to some degree in their articulation to the level of first language (L1) acquisition in general and they use many processes which appear in child’s speech in particular. However, some of these processes have been defined as idiosynchratic in L1 acquisition while others do not appear at all.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part 1. Independent evidence in grammar
  5. The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure 17
  6. Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) Nominal ( umlaut ) and Verbal ( ablaut ) forms in Old and Modern English 45
  7. Al hablar, se alterna hablando 83
  8. Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l’arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives 97
  9. Focus system of the Japanese benefactive auxiliaries kureru and morau 139
  10. Part 2. Phonology as human behavior
  11. Phonology as human behavior from an evolutionary point of view 169
  12. Phonology as human behavior 197
  13. Phonology as human behavior 219
  14. Phonology as human behavior 245
  15. A phonological analysis of the lexicon of a literary work 267
  16. Name index 293
  17. Subject index 295
Linguistic Theory and Empirical Evidence
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.64.10pol

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part 1. Independent evidence in grammar
  5. The distribution of linguistic forms and textual structure 17
  6. Semantic regularities of the so-called irregular Internal Vowel Alternation (IVA) Nominal ( umlaut ) and Verbal ( ablaut ) forms in Old and Modern English 45
  7. Al hablar, se alterna hablando 83
  8. Instructional meanings, iconicity, and l’arbitraire du signe in the analysis of the Afrikaans demonstratives 97
  9. Focus system of the Japanese benefactive auxiliaries kureru and morau 139
  10. Part 2. Phonology as human behavior
  11. Phonology as human behavior from an evolutionary point of view 169
  12. Phonology as human behavior 197
  13. Phonology as human behavior 219
  14. Phonology as human behavior 245
  15. A phonological analysis of the lexicon of a literary work 267
  16. Name index 293
  17. Subject index 295
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