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Gouri Shanker Patil, & R, M. (1). Intonation Contours in the Speech of Individuals with Broca’s Aphasia. Journal of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, 30(1), 67-74. Retrieved from http://203.129.241.91/jaiish/index.php/aiish/article/view/981
Abstract
The study acoustically examined the nuclear tones and terminal intonation contours in individuals with Broca’s aphasia vis-à-vis the neurologically normal participants. Ten individuals with Broca’s aphasia who spoke Kannada as mother tongue participated in the study along with 10 age and gender matched neurologically normal individuals. They narrated a picture card while their utterances were audio recorded using a digital tape recorder. The Computerized Speech Lab (CSL) 4400 software was used for generating intonation contours from the utterances of participants. The nuclear tones were analysed in terms of traditional classification of rise, fall, rise-fall, fall-rise, rise-fall-rise, fall-rise-fall, and level contour whereas the terminal contours analysis included rise, fall, and level contours. The results revealed presence of similar types of nuclear contours in both groups of participants. However, the terminal contours had occurred more frequently in within-sentence intonation units in individuals with Broca’s aphasia suggesting that were using this as a device to indicate utterance continuity, owing to a limited output in terms of utterance length. The intonation contour analysis results suggest that individuals with Broca’s aphasia are able to signal variations in F0 and they are able to utilise effectively the prosodic features of nuclear and terminal contours in discourse
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University of Mysore.
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discourse - interrogatives. Ph.D thesis, University
of Mysore.
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465-478.
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perception of word tones (pitch accents) in
patients with left and right hemisphere damage.
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a Chinese aphasic with the Boston Diagnostic
Aphasia Exam. Neuropsychologia, 18, 389-410.
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Kannada. Unpublished M.Sc dissertation,
University of Mysore.
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languages under five emotional conditions.
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Hearing, 12, 22-27.
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Intonation of colloquial English. London:
Longman.
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nonfluent aphasic Chinese speech. Brain and
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patterns associated with the glottal fricative in
Punjabi: A preliminary investigation, In C. Rama
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(pp. 19). Hyderabad: Osmania University.
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tone in Punjabi: A case of deaspiration and
tonogenesis. CIEFL Occasional Papers in
Linguistics, 7.
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in Punjabi. Hyderabad: CIEFL.
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unit boundaries in spontaneous spoken Hebrew:
Perceptual and acoustic analysis, M.A thesis,
Tel-Aviv University.
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on aphasia in a Chinese bilingual. Acta
Psychologica Taiwanica, 20, 57-64.
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guidelines. Ohio State University Working Papers
in Linguistics, 50, 127-162.
Substance-function relations in German phrasefinal
intonation contours. Phonetica, 62, 196-214.
Asher, R. E. (Ed.). (1997). Malayalam. London :
Routledge.
Beckman, M. E., & Ayers, G. M. (1994). Guidelines
for ToBI Labelling. Unpublished Manuscript,
Ohio State University.
Beckman, M. E., & Hirschberg, J. (1994), The ToBI
Annotation Conventions. Retrieved January 15,
2007, from www.ling.ohiostate.edu/~
tobi/ame_tobi/annotation_conv entions.html.
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of question versus continuation in Dutch.
Language and Speech, 41(3/4), 375-398.
Caspers, J. (2001). Testing the perceptual relevance of
syntactic completion and melodic configuration
for turn-taking in Dutch. In P. Dalsgaard, B.
Lindberg, & H. Benner (Eds.), Proceedings of the
7th European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology (pp.1395-1398).
Aalborg, Denemarken: Center for Person
kommunikation.
Cruttenden, A. (Ed.). (1986). Intonation. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Cruttenden, A (Ed.). (1997). Intonation (2nd ed.).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Danly, M., & Shapiro, B. (1982). Speech prosody in
Broca’s aphasia. Brain and Language, 16, 171-
190.
Danly, M., Cooper, W. E., & Shapiro, B. (1983).
Fundamental frequency, language processing, and
linguistic structure in Wernicke’s aphasia. Brain
and Language, 19, 1-24.
Dombrowski, E., & Niebuhr, O. (2005). Acoustic
patterns and communicative functions of phrasefinal
F0 rises in German: Activating and
restricting contours. Phonetica, 62(2-4), 176-195.
Essen, O. von. (Ed.). (1964). Grundzüge der
hochdeutschen Satzintonation (2nd ed.).
Ratingen: Henn.
Gandour, J., & Baum, S. R. (2001). Production of
stress retraction by left- and right-hemispheredamaged
patients. Brain and Language, 79, 482-
494.
Gandour, J., Petty, S. H., & Dardarananda, R. (1988).
Perception and production of tone in aphasia.
Brian and Language, 35, 201-240.
Gandour, J., Ponglorpisit, S., Khunadorn, F.,
Dechongkit, S., Boongird, P., Boonklam, R., &
Potisuk, S. (1992). Lexical tones in Thai after
unilateral brain damage. Brain and Language, 43,
275-307.
Gandour, J., Ponglorpisit, S., Potisuk, S., Khunadorn,
F., Boongird, P., & Dechongkit, S. (1997).
Interaction between tone and intonation in Thai
after unilateral brain damage. Brain and
Language, 58, 174-196.
Geethakumary, V. (2002). A contrastive analysis of
Hindi and Malayalam. Language in India, 2 (6)
Gibbon, D. (1998). Intonation in German. In D. Hirst
& A. Di Cristo (Eds.), Intonation systems: A
survey of twenty languages (pp. 78-95).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gilles, P. (2000). Intonation der Weiterweisung. In
List, 20, 1-35.
Gilles, P. (2003). Die Intonation von Abschluss und
Weiterweisung in deutschen Regionalvarietäten:
Funktionale und phonetische Analysen; habil.
diss. University of Freiburg.
Girija, P. N., & Neeraja, M. (2003). Intonation
knowledge for declarative Telugu sentences.
Retrieved August 21, 2006, from
http://www.colips.org/conference/coc osda2003/
proceedings/intsingoct17.pdf
Girish, P. M. (2004). Social aspects of moods in
Malayalam. Retrieved August 21, 2006, from
http://www.languageinindia.com/aug2004/sociom
ood1.html
Grice, M., & Baumann, S. (2002). Deutsche Intonation
und GToBI. Linguistische Berichte,191, 267-298.
Grice, M., Baumann, S., & Benzmüller, R. (2005).
German intonation in autosegmental-metrical
phonology. In S-A. Jun (Ed.), Prosodic typology:
The phonology of intonation and phrasing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Guy, G., & Vonwiller, J. (1989). The high rising tone
in Australian English. In P. Collins & D. Blair
(Eds.), Australian English: The language of a
new society (pp. 2134). St. Lucia: University of
Queensland Press.
Halliday, M. A. K. (Ed.). (1967). Intonation and
grammar in British English. Mouton, The Hague.
Hirschberg, J. (2002). Communication and prosody:
Functional aspects of prosody. Speech
Communication: Special Issue on Dialogue and
Prosody, 36, 31–43.
Hirst, D., & Di Cristo, A. (1998). A survey of
intonation systems. Retrieved October 16, 2005,
from http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~hirst/articles
/1998%20Hirst&DiCristo.pdf.
Horvath, B. (Ed.). (1985). Variation in Australian
English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jun, S-A. (2000). K-ToBI (Korean ToBI) labeling
conventions: Version 3. Speech Sciences, 7, 143-
169.
Karanth, P. (1980). A comparative analysis of aphasic
and schizophrenic language. Ph.D thesis,
University of Mysore.
Karanth, P. Ahuja, G. K., Nagaraja, D., Pandit, R., &
Shivashankar, N. (1991). Language disorders in
Indian neurological patients - A study in
neurolinguistics in the Indian context (Project
No. 5/8/10-1 (Oto)/84-NCD-1 IRIS Cell). New
Delhi:Indian Council of Medical Research
8403810.
Kent, R., & Rosenbek, J. C. (1982). Prosodic
disturbance and neurologic lesion. Brain and
Language, 15, 259-291.
Kertesz, A. (Ed.). (1982). The western aphasia
battery. New York: Grune & Stratton.
Kingdon, R. (Ed.). (1958). The groundwork of English
intonation. London: Longman.
Krishna, G. (2002). Stress in Kannada words in
narrative discourse. Unpublished M.Sc
dissertation, University of Mysore.
Ladd, D. R. (Ed.). (1996). Intonational phonology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Manjula, R. (1979). Intonation in Kannada: Some
aspects. Unpublished M.Sc dissertation,
University of Mysore.
Manjula, R. (1997). Aspects of Kannada intonation in
discourse - interrogatives. Ph.D thesis, University
of Mysore.
Meinhold, G. (1967). Progrediente und terminale
Intonationsverläufe im Deutschen. ZPSK, 20,
465-478.
Moen, I., & Sundet, K. (1996). Production and
perception of word tones (pitch accents) in
patients with left and right hemisphere damage.
Brain and Language, 53, 267–281.
Naeser, M. A., & Chan, S. W. C. (1980). Case study of
a Chinese aphasic with the Boston Diagnostic
Aphasia Exam. Neuropsychologia, 18, 389-410.
Nandini, H. M. (1985). Some prosodic aspects in
Kannada. Unpublished M.Sc dissertation,
University of Mysore.
Nataraja, N. P. (1981). Intonation in four Indian
languages under five emotional conditions.
Journal of All India Institute of Speech and
Hearing, 12, 22-27.
O’Connor, J. D., & Arnold, G. F. (Eds.). (1961).
Intonation of colloquial English. London:
Longman.
Packard, J. L. (1986). Tone production deficits in
nonfluent aphasic Chinese speech. Brain and
Language, 29, 212-223.
Palmer, H. (1922). English intonation with systematic
exercises. Cambridge, UK: Heffer.
Patil, C. (1984). Intonation contours of Kannada. In B.
B. Rajapurohit (Ed.), Acoustic studies in Indian
languages, CIIL, Mysore.
Peters, B. (1999). Prototypical Intonation Patterns in
German Read and Spontaneous Speech. AIPUK,
4, 1-175.
Peters, B. (2000). Individual and gender-specific
differences in the prosodic shaping of German
read and spontaneous speech. In H. D. Schlosser
(Ed.), Sprache und Kultur (Forum Angewandte
Linguistik. Band 38) (pp. 153-162). Frankfurt:
Lang.
Pierrehumbert, J. B. (1980). The phonology and
phonetics of English intonation. Ph.D thesis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Published
1988 by Indiana University Linguistics Club).
Rathna, N., Nataraja, N. P., & Samuel, G. (1976).
Identification of context based on intonation of
test sentences. Paper presented in the Indian
Speech and Hearing Association Conference.
Rathna, N., Nataraja, N. P., & Subramanyaiah, M. G.
(1982). A study of prosodic aspects of Kannada
language. Journal of All India Institute of Speech
and Hearing, 5, 7-24.
Ravisankar, G. (1987). Intonation of Tamil. Ph.D
thesis, Annamalai University.
Sadanand, K., & Vijayakrshnan, K. G. (1993). Pitch
patterns associated with the glottal fricative in
Punjabi: A preliminary investigation, In C. Rama
Rao et al. (Eds), Osmania papers in linguistics
(pp. 19). Hyderabad: Osmania University.
Sadanand, K., & Vijayakrishnan, K. G. (1998). High
tone in Punjabi: A case of deaspiration and
tonogenesis. CIEFL Occasional Papers in
Linguistics, 7.
Sethi, J. (1971). Intonation of statements and questions
in Punjabi. Hyderabad: CIEFL.
Silber-Varod, V. (2005). Characteristics of prosodic
unit boundaries in spontaneous spoken Hebrew:
Perceptual and acoustic analysis, M.A thesis,
Tel-Aviv University.
T’ sou, B. K. (1978). Some preliminary observations
on aphasia in a Chinese bilingual. Acta
Psychologica Taiwanica, 20, 57-64.
Venditti, J. J. (1995). Japanese ToBI labeling
guidelines. Ohio State University Working Papers
in Linguistics, 50, 127-162.