Syllable Structure and Sonority in Language Inventory and Aphasic Neologisms

Autor/inn/en	Stenneken, Prisca; Bastiaanse, Roelien; Huber, Walter; Jacobs, Arthur M.
Titel	Syllable Structure and Sonority in Language Inventory and Aphasic Neologisms
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 95 (2005) 2, S.280-292 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.013
Schlagwörter	Syllables; German; Aphasia; Linguistic Theory; Jargon; Speech; Linguistics; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Silbe; Deutscher; Expressive Aphasie; Aphasie; Linguistische Theorie; Speaking; Sprechen; Linguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Phonological theories have raised the notion of a universally preferred syllable type which is defined in terms of its sonority structure (e.g., Clements, 1990). Empirical evidence for this notion has been provided by distributional analyses of natural languages and of language acquisition data, and by aphasic speech error analyses. The present study investigates frequency distributions of syllable types in German, which allows for a rather complex syllable structure, and in neologistic utterances of a German speaking jargon aphasic. The findings suggest that the sonority structure of the patient's neologisms is generally in accordance with the notion of theoretically preferred syllables. Moreover, comparative analyses suggest that the predominance of the preferred syllable type is especially pronounced in the aphasic data. On the basis of these findings, the influence of sonority in impaired phonological lexical processing is discussed. (Author).
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