the present case report introduces a patient with fluent aphasia, anterograde amnesia and anosmia due to herpes simplex encephalitis after her first delivery. the left medial temporal lobe was one of the main areas involved. on aphasia testing she showed severe anomia on both confrontation and free recall, agraphia, alexia, repetition disorder and some auditory comprehension impairments. therap...

Gaskell and Marslen-Wilson (1996) use data from cross-modal priming to show that word recognition involves phonological inference: listeners more readily recognize a word that is changed from its canonical form if that change is conditioned by a phonological process. Subsequent research has questioned whether word recognition does in fact involve phonological inference, based on evidence that p...

Phonological awareness is one of several key precursor skills to conventional literacy that develop during the preschool period. Significant amounts of research support the causal and predictive relation between phonological awareness and children’s ease of learning to decode and spell. However, many preschool curricula and early childhood educational and caregiving settings are still lacking i...

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between phonological processing skills prior to kindergarten entry and reading skills at the end of 1st grade, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). METHOD The participants were 17 children with SSD and poor phonological processing skills (SSD-low PP), 16 children with SSD and good phonological processing skills (SSD-high PP), and 35 children with ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the functional role of syllables in sign language and how the different phonological combinations influence sign production. Moreover, the influence of age of acquisition was evaluated. Deaf signers (native and non-native) of Catalan Signed Language (LSC) were asked in a picture-sign interference task to sign picture names while ignoring distracto...

We investigate the role of phonological alternation during speech production in Mandarin using implicit priming, a paradigm in which participants respond faster to words in sets that are phonologically homogeneous than in sets that are phonologically heterogeneous. We test whether priming is obtained when words in a set share the same tones at the underlying level but have different tones at th...

Phonological structures and processes are determined by the functional principles of minimization of articulatory effort and maximization of perceptual contrast. We can solve many hitherto controversial issues if we are aware of the different roles of articulation and perception in phonology. Traditionally separate devices like the segment, spreading, licensing, underspecification, feature geom...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate phonological error patterns from multisyllable words in subgroups speech sound disorders (SSDs) classified by linguistic symptomatology, and examine whether underlying deficits each subgroup SSDs could be identified through patterns. Methods: 2-5-syllable words, which a total 120 children with 3 years 9 11 months produced, were analyzed; ...

INTRODUCTION Considering the importance of auditory information for the acquisition and organization of phonological rules, the assessment of (central) auditory processing contributes to both the diagnosis and targeting of speech therapy in children with speech sound disorders. OBJECTIVE To study phonological measures and (central) auditory processing of children with speech sound disorder. ...