Speech Prosody 2008 Campinas, Brazil May 6-9, 2008

Conversational Prosodic Interactivity When One Partner has Aphasia

Eugene H. Buder, Jamie L. Edrington

School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, The University of Memphis, USA

The purpose of this study is to document prosodic interactivity, and its preservation in a woman with non-fluent aphasia. Fundamental frequency and sound pressure level records are examined for sinusoidal models. In-phase and anti-phase partner relationships in these models may represent synchrony. These measurements demonstrate that prosodic management of conversational rhythms is robust even when expressive language is disturbed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Buder, Eugene H. / Edrington, Jamie L. (2008): "Conversational prosodic interactivity when one partner has aphasia", In SP-2008, 501-504.