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Lowe, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study focuses on a meaningful understanding of idiosyncratic language in psychosis. The psychotic neologisms examined in this dissertation challenge the listener's accurate understanding. Idiosyncratic aspects of speech in psychosis are largely researched from a diagnostic perspective in the literature. This study asks how individuals…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interviews, Mental Disorders, Psychosis
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Martinez-Castilla, Pastora; Peppe, Sue – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Well-documented Romance-Germanic differences in the use of accent in speech to convey information-structure and focus cause problems for the assessment of prosodic skills in populations with clinical disorders. The strategies for assessing the ability to use lexical and contrastive accent in English and Spanish are reviewed, and studies in the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Autism, Spanish, English
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Schmid, Gabriele; Thielmann, Anke; Ziegler, Wolfram – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Patients with lesions of the left hemisphere often suffer from oral-facial apraxia, apraxia of speech, and aphasia. In these patients, visual features often play a critical role in speech and language therapy, when pictured lip shapes or the therapist's visible mouth movements are used to facilitate speech production and articulation. This demands…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Speech Impairments, Imitation, Patients
Lesser, Ruth – 1985
A discussion of grammatical disorders in aphasia considers an area of ambiguity. In the work of one researcher, impairment of logico-grammatical relations is associated with semantic aphasia, not efferent-motor aphasia. In Western studies, efferent-motor aphasia is associated with impaired comprehension and production of grammar. In order to…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis