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Peer reviewedKimelman, Mikael D. Z.; McNeil, Malcolm R. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1987
The differential effects of normal and emphatic stress on the auditory comprehension performance of nine aphasic and five normal adults were assessed. The aphasic subjects demonstrated significantly better performance for stimuli presented with emphatic stress. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Auditory Perception, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedShapiro, Lewis P.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
The study with 10 agrammatic aphasic (Broca) adults examined their difficulties using determiners in sentence comprehension. Results included the findings that printed rather than spoken presentation yielded significant improvement for the proper noun/common noun distinction, and that performance was poorer for the mass noun/count noun…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Language Handicaps, Listening Comprehension
