The Ability of Right- and Left-Hemisphere-Damaged Individuals to Produce and Interpret Prosodic Cues Marking Phrasal Boundaries

Language and Speech

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-330

  Baum, Shari R ^a   Pell, Marc D ^b   Leonard, Carol L ^b   Gordon, Jeanne K ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brain damage; Prosody; Speech comprehension; Speech production

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0346507061     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099704000401     Document Type: Article

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