INTRODUCTION Spasmophemia, also called stuttering or stammering, is a speech disorder characterized by impairment of the rhythm of words whose classical symptoms are blocks and repetitions. METHODOLOGY We describe the case of a male patient, his evolution and therapeutic strategies and review the current literature on the subject. RESULTS A 33-year-old patient was referred to our Mental Hea...

The context of a linguistic expression is defined as everything outside the expression itself that is necessary for unambiguous interpretation of the expression. As meaning can be conveyed either by the implicit, shared context or by the explicit form of the expression, the degree of context-dependence or “contextuality” of communication will vary, depending on the situation and preferences of ...

One interesting phenomenon of natural conversation is overlapping speech. Besides causing difficulties in automatic speech processing, such overlaps carry information on the state of the overlapper: competitive overlaps (i.e. “interruptions”) can signal disagreement or the feeling of being overlooked, and cooperative overlaps (i.e. supportive interjections) can signal agreement and interest. Th...

An analysis of the temporal (prospective) form (silent and filled hesitations, repetitions, incomplete phrases, context-related comments, interjections), syntactic form, and lexical (retrospective) form (verbal deviations, open and closed class phrases) of spontaneous language production of early and middle stage Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's patients was made. Results showed that ...

UNLABELLED This study examined the disfluent speech of 32 normally fluent monolingual, Spanish-speaking children from Puerto Rico. The total frequencies and types of speech disfluencies were examined in 15 children (8 girls and 7 boys) aged 3;5-4;0 years (M=3.76) and 17 children (8 girls and 9 boys) aged 5;0-5;5 years (M=5.18). When examining the total frequencies of speech disfluencies, result...

The hypokinetic dysarthria of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been described extensively. In contrast, patterns of hesitation and the language structure in spontaneous speech of the PD patient have not been investigated, although several studies have shown language-related abnormalities in word naming, word generation, and verbal recall. In the present study, 10 male Parkinson's patients and 10 no...

495 ABSTRACT Background and purposes: Anomic aphasia is common in patients with left hemispheric strokes. The purpose of this study was to explore the verbal production of ischemic stroke patients with anomic aphasia. Contingent and methods: Fifty ischemic stroke patients admitted to the Neurology Clinic of University Hospital Pleven were studied by neuropsychological battery and CT scan of the...

The present research centered upon the analysis of functional contrasts and social class differences in such contrasts in speech samples of fifth and sixth grade children selected from socioeconomic extremes in the Detroit area. The aim was to map such contrasts onto some of the contemporary speculationsabout social class differences in modes of speech and implications concerning the language p...

For a long time, the exploration of emotions focused on facial expression, and vocal expression of emotion has only recently received interest. However, no validated battery of emotional vocal expressions has been published and made available to the researchers’ community. This paper aims at validating and proposing such material. 20 actors (10 men) recorded sounds (words and interjections) exp...

This paper presents a new approach for classification of dysfluent and fluent speech using Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC). The speech is fluent when person's speech flows easily and smoothly. Sounds combine into syllable, syllables mix together into words and words link into sentences with little effort. When someone's speech is dyfluent, it is irregular and does not flow effortlessl...