Use of prosodic cues in the production of idiomatic and literal sentences by individuals with right- and left-hemisphere damage

Brain and Language

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-42

  Bélanger, Nathalie ^a,b   Baum, Shari R ^a,b   Titone, Debra ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Centre for Research on Language   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain damage; Idiom processing; Prosody; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PROSODY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPEECH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME;

EID: 67349200298     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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