Neural substrates of linguistic prosody: Evidence from syntactic disambiguation in the productions of brain-damaged patients

Brain and Language

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 78-89

  Shah, Amee P ^a,b   Baum, Shari R ^a   Dwivedi, Veena D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measures; Brain damage; Duration; F0; Lateralization; Prosodic control; Syntactic disambiguation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA, BROCA; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 27844490529     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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