Syllabic constraints in the phonological errors of an aphasic patient

Cristina Romani; Andrea Calabrese

doi:10.1006/brln.1998.1958

Syllabic constraints in the phonological errors of an aphasic patient

Cristina Romani^*
, Andrea Calabrese

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Psychology

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The Sonority Dispersion Principle (Clements, 1990) states that the sharper the rise in sonority between the beginning of the syllable and the nucleus, the better the syllable. So far evidence in favour of this principle has been derived mainly from the distributional properties of syllable types and, to a lesser extent, from language acquisition. The case of DB, presented in this study, provides strong evidence that the Sonority Dispersion Principle also applies to an explanation of aphasic errors and revives Jakobson's idea that the same principles of complexity can explain the distribution of syllables, language acquisition, and language loss (Jakobson, 1941, 1968). Although some evidence that sonority constraints aphasic errors has been presented before, this is the first study reporting systematic effects of sonority-based complexity in aphasia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-121
Number of pages	39
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	64
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/brln.1998.1958
Publication status	Published - Aug 1998

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Preparation of this work was supported in part by INH Grant 23836 to Prof. Alfonso Cara-mazza and by a HFSPO (Human Frontier Science Program Organization) fellowship to Dr. Cristina Romani. We thank sincerely Gabriele Miceli who has provided access to the patient. We also thank Andrew Olson for helping with the analyses of the data and Alfonso Caramazza for making available some of the data collected on the patient. We finally thank Morris Halle for their comments and suggestions. Reprint requests should be addressed to Cristina Romani, Ph.D., at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Fax: 44-21-414 4897. E-mail: [email protected]. 83

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