Stronger Accent Following a Stroke: The Case of a Trilingual with Aphasia

Autor/inn/en	Levy, Erika S.; Goral, Mira; De Diesbach, Catharine Castelluccio; Law, Franzo, II
Titel	Stronger Accent Following a Stroke: The Case of a Trilingual with Aphasia
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25 (2011) 10, S.815-830 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
DOI	10.3109/02699206.2011.570408
Schlagwörter	Accidents; Semitic Languages; Speech; Native Speakers; Aphasia; Multilingualism; Acoustics; English (Second Language); Pronunciation; French; Second Languages; Interference (Language); Audio Equipment; Listening; Articulation (Speech); Neurological Impairments; Auditory Perception + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Speaking; Sprechen; Muttersprachler; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Akustik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Aussprache; Französisch; Second language; Zweitsprache; Audio-CD; Hörvorgang; Zuhören; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung
Abstract	This study documents patterns of change in speech production in a multilingual with aphasia following a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). EC, a right-handed Hebrew-English-French trilingual man, had a left fronto-temporo-parietal CVA, after which he reported that his (native) Hebrew accent became stronger in his (second language) English. Recordings of his pre- and post-CVA speech permitted an investigation of changes in his accent. In sentence- and segment-listening tasks, native American English listeners (n = 13 and 15, respectively) judged EC's pre- and post-CVA speech. EC's speech was perceived as more foreign-accented, slow, strained and hesitant, but not less intelligible, post-CVA. Acoustic analysis revealed less coarticulation and longer vowel- and word-durations post-CVA. This case extends knowledge about perceptual and acoustic changes in speech production in multilinguals following CVAs. It is suggested that EC's stronger accent post-CVA may have resulted from damage to the neuronal networks that led to impairment in his other language domains. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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