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Use of Prosodic Cues in the Production of Idiomatic and Literal Sentences by Individuals with Right- and Left-Hemisphere Damage
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Belanger, Nathalie; Baum, Shari R.; Titone, Debra – Brain and Language, 2009
The neural bases of prosody during the production of literal and idiomatic interpretations of literally plausible idioms was investigated. Left- and right-hemisphere-damaged participants and normal controls produced literal and idiomatic versions of idioms ("He hit the books.") All groups modulated duration to distinguish the interpretations. LHD…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Patients, Bilingualism