Stronger accent following a stroke: The case of a trilingual with aphasia

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 815-830

  Levy, Erika S ^a   Goral, Mira ^b,c   De Diesbach, Castelluccio Catharine ^c   Law Ii, Franzo ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accentedness ratings; Acoustic analysis; Aphasia; Foreign Accent Syndrome; Multilingual

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; STROKE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052644575     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2011.570408     Document Type: Article

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