The Perception of Stress as a Semantic Cue in Aphasia

Stress as a phonemic feature in English serves only to distinguish syntactic class membership for nouns vs verbs (convict-convict) or noun vs noun phrases (redcoat vs red coat).

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No AccessJournal of Speech and Hearing ResearchResearch Article1 Dec 1972The Perception of Stress as a Semantic Cue in Aphasia Sheila Blumstein, and Harold Goodglass Sheila Blumstein Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Google Scholar More articles by this author and Harold Goodglass Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Google Scholar More articles by this author https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.1504.800 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Stress as a phonemic feature in English serves only to distinguish syntactic class membership for nouns vs verbs (cónvict-convíct) or noun vs noun phrases (rédcoat vs red cóat). The capacity for these discriminations was compared in 17 aphasic patients and 13 controls who were not brain damaged. The subjects' task was to choose the most appropriate picture out of an array of four in response to the spoken stimulus. 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Cooper Volume 15Issue 4December 1972Pages: 800-806 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library HistoryReceived: May 23, 1972 Published in issue: Dec 1, 1972PubMed ID: 4672047 Metrics Topicsasha-topicsasha-article-typesCopyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1972 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationPDF downloadLoading ...