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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2021.13.3.001

Comparison of prosodic characteristics by question type in left- and right-hemisphere-injured stroke patients  

Yu, Youngmi (Speech-Language Pathology, Chungnam National University)
Seong, Cheoljae (Linguistics, Chungnam National University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.13, no.3, 2021 , pp. 1-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the characteristics of linguistic prosody in terms of cerebral lateralization in three groups of 9 healthy speakers and 14 speakers with a history of stroke (7 with left hemisphere damage (LHD), 7 with right hemisphere damage (RHD)). Specifically, prosodic characteristics related to speech rate, duration, pitch, and intensity were examined in three types of interrogative sentences (wh-questions, yes-no questions, alternative questions) with auditory perceptual evaluation. As a result, the statistically significant key variables showed flaws in production of the linguistic prosody in the speakers with LHD. The statistically significant variables were more insufficiently produced for wh-questions than for yes-no and alternative questions. This trend was particularly noticeable in variables related to pitch and speech rate. This result suggests that when Korean speakers process linguistic prosody, such as that of lexico-semantic and syntactic information in interrogative sentences, the left hemisphere seems to be superior to the right hemisphere.
Keywords
strokes; linguistic prosody; interrogative sentences; acoustic analysis; auditory perceptual experiment;
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