Differences Between the Child and the Aphasic

Albright, Robert W.

doi:10.1177/002383095800100303

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“…Thus, individuals with aphasia should produce more errors on those structures that are acquired late by children and that are less frequent within and between languages. This hypothesis was dismissed early on as a general explanation for aphasia (e.g., Albright, 1958;Caramazza, 1994). It has been noted that aphasic errors do not systematically affect some (more complex) structures compared to others.…”

Section: Nature Of Complexity Effects and Aphasic Patternsmentioning

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Comparing phoneme frequency, age of acquisition, and loss in aphasia: Implications for phonological universals

Romani

Galuzzi

Guariglia

et al. 2017

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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Phonological complexity may be central to the nature of human language. It may shape the distribution of phonemes and phoneme sequences within languages, but also determine age of acquisition and susceptibility to loss in aphasia. We evaluated this claim using frequency statistics derived from a corpus of phonologically transcribed Italian words (phonitalia, available at phonitalia,org), rankings of phoneme age of acquisition (AoA) and rate of phoneme errors in patients with apraxia of speech (AoS) as an indication of articulatory complexity. These measures were related to cross-linguistically derived markedness rankings. We found strong correspondences. AoA, however, was predicted by both apraxic errors and frequency, suggesting independent contributions of these variables. Our results support the reality of universal principles of complexity. In addition they suggest that these complexity principles have articulatory underpinnings since they modulate the production of patients with AoS, but not the production of patients with more central phonological difficulties.

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Section: Nature Of Complexity Effects and Aphasic Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%