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Lecture Thirteen - Fluency problems in aphasic and Down syndrome speakers

In the first part, look at stuttering and aphasia together. Why?. Stuttering is a problem in development No major organic cause Aphasia is a problem of senescence Has a clear organic cause . Answer - both affect function and content words in different ways. Function words pronouns, articles, pre

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Lecture Thirteen - Fluency problems in aphasic and Down syndrome speakers

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    1. Lecture Thirteen - Fluency problems in aphasic and Down syndrome speakers

    2. In the first part, look at stuttering and aphasia together. Why? Stuttering is a problem in development No major organic cause Aphasia is a problem of senescence Has a clear organic cause

    3. Answer - both affect function and content words in different ways Function words pronouns, articles, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs Content words nouns, main verbs, adverbs, and adjectives Stuttering Function words are repeated as wholes or there are pauses around them Content words are more likely to involve parts of words Aphasia Function words omitted or substituted Content words lose their inflectional endings

    8. evidence to see what level function/content occur for each disorder Semantics -used in Brown’s account no studies examined imagery/concreteness Syntax seen Wijnen view, a position Bernstein Ratner favors too in authoritative reviews, Nippold finds no support Morphology only two studies word end morphology Chloe Marshall and Rachel Diment neither find any effect of word endings on stuttering

    9. Marshall Study

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