Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Phonological encoding and phonetic duration

Melinda D. Fricke
2013

Co-advisors: Susanne Gahl and Keith Johnson

Usage-based approaches to aphasia

Susanne Gahl
Lise Menn
2016

Background: Effects of word frequency on language comprehension and production are pervasive in speakers with and without aphasia. Frequency effects at the sentence level are likewise pervasive in neurotypical speakers, but have received relatively little attention in the aphasia literature. When discussed, frequency-based explanations have typically been dismissed as explanations of sentence-level deficits. Usage-based approaches to understanding the accessibility of clause and phrase structures are not widely used in aphasiology, in spite of their psycholinguistic plausibility.

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