Phonological processes and phonemic paraphasias

Abstract

Aphasic phonological errors have received considerable attention in the literature. Linguistic analysis of phonological production errors has been largely based on the distinctive feature framework. Phonological process analysis has been demontrated to be an effective approach in child phonology. Process analysis focuses on the strategies which result in phonological error, rather than on the error itself. Few studies have attempted to apply process analysis to the phonological errors of adult aphasics. This paper applies process analysis to the phonemic paraphasias of posterior lesion aphasics from six published studies. Clinical and research implications are presented.

Pars Opercularis Underlies Efferent Predictions and Successful Auditory Feedback Processing in Speech: Evidence From Left-Hemisphere Stroke

“…While variability alone might not be substantially detrimental to communication, there is an emerging understanding that some perceived errors stem from uncontrolled phonetic variability. That is, some phonemic paraphasias that appear to occur at the level of phonological encoding ( Parsons et al, 1988 ) contain trace phonetic effects consistent with failures of online detection and correction of deviant acoustics during the course of articulation ( Kurowski & Blumstein, 2016 ; also see Buckingham & Yule, 1987 ). These findings suggest that the “lower-order” sensorimotor network, in addition to the “higher-order” language network, may be affected in aphasia.…”