Most aphasiological studies have concluded that stress pattern assignment is unimpaired in both fluent and non-fluent aphasia [4]. However, the existence of specific stress errors in fluent aphasics has been reported in some cases [3]. Concerning the acoustic characteristics of stress production by aphasic patients in several languages, there has generally been found to be a deficit in duration...

Aphasiology Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393920 Progressive non-fluent aphasia is not a progressive form of non-fluent (post-stroke) aphasia Karalyn Patterson a; Naida L. Graham a; Matthew A. Lambon Ralph b; John R. Hodges a a MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK b Universit...

Acevedo N, Bame JH, Kuehn LA, Hohenboken WD, Evenson DP, and Saacke RG.“Effects of scrotal insulation on morphology and chromatin characteristics ofejaculated spermatozoa in the bovine” (in preparation) LANGUAGE SKILLSFluent in written and spoken English and SpanishPartially fluent in written and spoken French

OBJECTIVES Howell and Davis's (2011) model that predicts whether stuttering in eight-year old children will persist or recover by teenage was adapted for screening school-aged children for risk of stuttering. Stuttering-severity scores were used to predict whether children belonged to fluent or stuttering groups. Predicted group assignments were compared for models in which severity measures we...

Fluent merging is a reformulation technique for classical planning problems that can be applied automatically or semiautomatically. The reformulation strives to transform a planning task into a representation that allows a planning algorithm to find solutions more efficiently or to find solutions of better quality. This work introduces different approaches for fluent merging and evaluates them ...

This paper presents an analysis of partial-order and causal-links planning based on Sandewall’s systematic approach to reasoning about action and change. The partial-order planners TWEAK and SNLP are analysed and reconstructed. A temporal logic, called the fluent logic, is used for representing plans, and the strong connection between causal links and elements of the fluent logic are pointed out.

The American Sign Language Sentence Reproduction Test (ASL-SRT) requires the precise reproduction of a series of ASL sentences increasing in complexity and length. Error analyses of such tasks provides insight into working memory and scaffolding processes. Data was collected from three groups expected to differ in fluency: deaf children, deaf adults and hearing adults, all users of ASL. Quantit...