Predicting segmental substitution errors in aphasic patients with phonological and phonetic encoding impairments

This paper analyses the factors that predict substitution errors produced by four Broca's and four conduction aphasic subjects, all native speakers of Spanish, in reading and repetition tasks. Errors were elicited using a list of words where type of consonant, lexical stress and phonetic contex...

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Autores: Marczyk, Anna|||0000-0002-3349-1868, Baqué Millet, Lorraine|||0000-0002-0605-0207
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:159700
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/159700
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3989/loquens.2015.023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Phonetic and phonological impairments
Aphasia
Substitution errors
Trastornos fonéticos y fonológicos
Afasia
Errores de sustitución
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Sumario:This paper analyses the factors that predict substitution errors produced by four Broca's and four conduction aphasic subjects, all native speakers of Spanish, in reading and repetition tasks. Errors were elicited using a list of words where type of consonant, lexical stress and phonetic context were controlled for and where variables related to frequency of occurrence (word and syllable) and phonological neighbourhood characteristics were assigned using available online corpora. 675 substitution errors were obtained and preferential tendencies to devoice, occlusivise or spirantise were identified. Logistic regression mixed-effect models were performed on these three types of substitution errors to identify the predictors depending on the aphasic profile. While our results lent support to the hypothesis of a concomitant phonetic deficit in fluent aphasia, contrary to the classical claim, it also revealed differential patterns in the phonic behaviour of patients regarding the access to mental syllabary or syllabic position effects. Our results are discussed in relation to the phonetic vs. phonological impairments dimension in aphasia and the seriality/interactivity axis in speech architectures.