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SUBMITTER: Ash S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2839014 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ash Sharon S McMillan Corey C Gunawardena Delani D Avants Brian B Morgan Brianna B Khan Alea A Moore Peachie P Gee James J Grossman Murray M
Brain and language 20100113 1
The nature and frequency of speech production errors in neurodegenerative disease have not previously been precisely quantified. In the present study, 16 patients with a progressive form of non-fluent aphasia (PNFA) were asked to tell a story from a wordless children's picture book. Errors in production were classified as either phonemic, involving language-based deformations that nevertheless result in possible sequences of English speech segments; or phonetic, involving a motor planning defici ...[more]