Palestra 04
- Título
- Prosody and Speech Pathology
- Palestrante
- Dra. Janet Beck (Queen Margaret University, Escócia)
- Resumo
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In 2009, Peppé posed the question: "Why is prosody in speech-language pathology so difficult?". In spite of significant advances in prosody research, this question still stands, and the task of making prosody less difficult for Speech Pathology is a major challenge for clinicians and researchers.
In many clinical groups where expression and/or receptive understanding of prosody is affected, difficulties with intonation and temporal organization are closely intertwined with atypical voice quality. In some cases this is because impaired voice production limits the ability to signal intonational contrasts (e.g. in Parkinson's or vocal fold palsy), in some cases atypical voice quality and intonation are both the result of sensory difficulties (e.g. in children with cochlear implants) and in some cases difficulties may arise from central processing problems (e.g. in brain injury or stroke). In many other cases the cause may be some more complex combination of productive, receptive and cognitive difficulties (e.g. in autism, cerebral palsy or learning difficulty). This paper will illustrate some of the issues facing speech pathology by reference to recent research into the relationships between voice quality and prosody in clinical populations, including autistic spectrum disorder, voice pathology and children with cochlear implants.
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