Effect of lexical cues on the production of active and passive sentences in Broca’s and Wernicke’s aphasia

Abstract Linguistic interaction models suggest that interrelationships arise between structural language components and between structural and pragmatic components when language is used in social contexts. The linguist, David Crystal (1986, 1987), has proposed that these relationships are central, not peripheral, to achieving desired clinical outcomes. For individuals with severe communication challenges, erratic or unpredictable relationships between structural and pragmatic components can result in atypical patterns of interaction between them and members of their social communities, which may create a perception of disablement. This paper presents a case study of a woman with fluent, Wernicke's aphasia that illustrates how attention to patterns of linguistic interaction may enhance AAC intervention for adults with aphasia.

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Collaborative referencing using hand gestures in Wernicke’s aphasia: Discourse analysis of a case study

Aphasiology ◽

10.1080/02687038.2021.1937919 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-24

Author(s):

Suma R. Devanga ◽

Rachel Wilgenhof ◽

Mili Mathew

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Hand Gestures ◽

Wernicke's Aphasia

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Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Cues to Deception and Trust: Deciphering How People Detect Lies

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics ◽

10.1162/tacl_a_00311 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 199-214

Author(s):

Xi (Leslie) Chen ◽

Sarah Ita Levitan ◽

Michelle Levine ◽

Marko Mandic ◽

Julia Hirschberg

Keyword(s):

Deception Detection ◽

Human Perception ◽

Lie Detection ◽

Challenging Problem ◽

Cues To Deception ◽

Lexical Cues ◽

Insight Into ◽

Large Corpus ◽

Better Than

Humans rarely perform better than chance at lie detection. To better understand human perception of deception, we created a game framework, LieCatcher, to collect ratings of perceived deception using a large corpus of deceptive and truthful interviews. We analyzed the acoustic-prosodic and linguistic characteristics of language trusted and mistrusted by raters and compared these to characteristics of actual truthful and deceptive language to understand how perception aligns with reality. With this data we built classifiers to automatically distinguish trusted from mistrusted speech, achieving an F1 of 66.1%. We next evaluated whether the strategies raters said they used to discriminate between truthful and deceptive responses were in fact useful. Our results show that, although several prosodic and lexical features were consistently perceived as trustworthy, they were not reliable cues. Also, the strategies that judges reported using in deception detection were not helpful for the task. Our work sheds light on the nature of trusted language and provides insight into the challenging problem of human deception detection.

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Speaking in numbers as a transitional phase between mutism and Wernicke's aphasia: A report of three cases

Aphasiology ◽

10.1080/02687038.2012.660460 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 917-932 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Miet De Letter ◽

John Van Borsel ◽

Katja Batens ◽

Marjan Megens ◽

Dimitri Hemelsoet ◽

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Keyword(s):

Wernicke's Aphasia ◽

Transitional Phase

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Film Quality Prediction Using Acoustic, Prosodic and Lexical Cues

2021 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) ◽

10.1109/slt48900.2021.9383509 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Su Ji Park ◽

Alan Rozet

Keyword(s):

Quality Prediction ◽

Lexical Cues

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Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: the role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery

Journal of Child Language ◽

10.1017/s0305000909990316 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 222-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

EVAN KIDD ◽

ANDREW J. STEWART ◽

LUDOVICA SERRATRICE

Keyword(s):

Eye Tracking ◽

Sentence Processing ◽

Test Sentence ◽

Visual World ◽

Garden Path ◽

Initial Analysis ◽

Adults And Children ◽

Scene Information ◽

Lexical Cues

ABSTRACTIn this paper we report on a visual world eye-tracking experiment that investigated the differing abilities of adults and children to use referential scene information during reanalysis to overcome lexical biases during sentence processing. The results showed that adults incorporated aspects of the referential scene into their parse as soon as it became apparent that a test sentence was syntactically ambiguous, suggesting they considered the two alternative analyses in parallel. In contrast, the children appeared not to reanalyze their initial analysis, even over shorter distances than have been investigated in prior research. We argue that this reflects the children's over-reliance on bottom-up, lexical cues to interpretation. The implications for the development of parsing routines are discussed.

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