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Effect of temporal expansion of speech on aphasic comprehension1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Mary Lois Marckworth
Mary Lois Marckworth*
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University of Alberta
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Language events occur in a temporal domain. Every speech event occupies a span of time and has temporal boundaries beyond which it cannot be reduced (or, presumably, expanded) and remain intelligible. Normal language users operate successfully within these temporal boundaries, both producing and perceiving utterances within the critical limits.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Spring 1976 , pp. 79 - 94
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1976

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Footnotes

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The kind help of the following individuals and institutions where the testing reported in this study was carried out is most gratefully acknowledged: Dr. Russell Malone and the Glenrose Provincial Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta; Dr. J. L. Shapley and Dr. George L. Larsen and the Veterans Administration Hospital, Seattle, Washington; Dr. R. Bollinger, University Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. The comments of Drs. G. D. Prideaux, J. T. Hogan, and Wm. J. Baker of the Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta, on an earlier version of this paper were most helpful, and are acknowledged with thanks; in particular, Dr. Baker’s advice on the statistical analysis of the data is greatly appreciated.

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