ERIC Number: EJ962580
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Oct
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Stronger Accent Following a Stroke: The Case of a Trilingual with Aphasia
Levy, Erika S.; Goral, Mira; De Diesbach, Catharine Castelluccio; Law, Franzo, II
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, v25 n10 p815-830 Oct 2011
This study documents patterns of change in speech production in a multilingual with aphasia following a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). EC, a right-handed Hebrew-English-French trilingual man, had a left fronto-temporo-parietal CVA, after which he reported that his (native) Hebrew accent became stronger in his (second language) English. Recordings of his pre- and post-CVA speech permitted an investigation of changes in his accent. In sentence- and segment-listening tasks, native American English listeners (n = 13 and 15, respectively) judged EC's pre- and post-CVA speech. EC's speech was perceived as more foreign-accented, slow, strained and hesitant, but not less intelligible, post-CVA. Acoustic analysis revealed less coarticulation and longer vowel- and word-durations post-CVA. This case extends knowledge about perceptual and acoustic changes in speech production in multilinguals following CVAs. It is suggested that EC's stronger accent post-CVA may have resulted from damage to the neuronal networks that led to impairment in his other language domains. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Accidents, Semitic Languages, Speech, Native Speakers, Aphasia, Multilingualism, Acoustics, English (Second Language), Pronunciation, French, Second Languages, Interference (Language), Audio Equipment, Listening, Articulation (Speech), Neurological Impairments, Auditory Perception
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