LINGUIST List 17.1157

Tue Apr 18 2006

Books: Neurolinguistics/Phonology/Phonetics: Liang

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Directory         1.    Keetje van den Heuvel, Experiments on the modular nature of word and sentence phonology in Chinese Broca's patients: Liang

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Message 1: Experiments on the modular nature of word and sentence phonology in Chinese Broca's patients: Liang
Date: 18-Apr-2006
From: Keetje van den Heuvel <lotlet.uu.nl>
Subject: Experiments on the modular nature of word and sentence phonology in Chinese Broca's patients: Liang


Title: Experiments on the modular nature of word and sentence phonology
in Chinese Broca's patients Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2006 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl

Author: Jie Liang, Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL) Paperback: ISBN: 9789078328001 Pages: 204 Price: Europe EURO 22.12
Abstract:

This book investigates the effects of brain lesions in the left hemisphere,specifically Broca's area, on the production and perception of vowels, ofword tones and of the linguistic use of sentence melody. We aimed to testhow and to what extent Beijing aphasic patients process Chinese word tonesand sentence melody (question versus statement intonation) relative tohealthy Beijing speakers and relative to learners of Beijing dialect with(Nantong, Changsha) and without (Uygur) a tone language as their native tongue.

The main question is whether in the architecture of the brain word tonesare closer to the segmental structure of the words (i.e. the vowels andconsonants) - given that both segments and word tones are lexicalproperties - or to the sentence melody - on the strength of the argumentthat word tones and sentence melody share a tonal representation. Asubsidiary question is to what extent the mental representation of the wordtones in a tone language (such as Beijing, a dialect which is very close tostandard Mandarin) in the brain of Broca's aphasic patients is comparableto that of speakers of Beijing dialect as a second language.

The results indicate that word tones are represented separately from thesegmental structure and from sentence melody. Moreover, the mentalrepresentation of the tones in the patients is defective in a way thatresembles the deficit of a second-language speaker.

This study is of interest to neurolinguists, phonologists and phoneticians.

Available free online

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics                             Phonetics                             Phonology
Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)                             Uyghur (uig)
Written In: English (eng )

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