Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
| English |
| prosody |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun
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| Grammatical label |
uncountable
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| Definition |
A component of speech that conveys meaning through pitch, loudness, tempo, stress, and rhythm.
A component of speech that conveys meaning through pitch, loudness, tempo, stress, and rhythm. It may enhance the meaning of what is said, as in declarative or interrogative statements, and it is important in conveying emotional content.
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| Definition source |
Loring D. W. 1999
Loring D. W. 1999
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| Context |
In a related study Schiller (1947) linked a disturbance of articulation, inflection, and rate of speech with a wound at the foot of the precentral convolution. He observed that agrammatism, disturbed prosody, and perseveration were present in patients with left frontotemporal missile wounds. Russell and Espir found focal missile wounds in the dominant parietal lobe to result frequently in a global aphasia, although small posterior parietal lesions resulted in specific anomia, alexia, and agraphia. Similarly, Mohr et al. (1980) noted that parietal injury was more likely to produce aphasia than was a focal wound of any other lobe.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Language
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| Related concept |
Fluency, Speech, Dysprosody, Oral language
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| it |
Prosodia
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| Reliability code |
3
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