Abstract: |
Recent acoustic analyses of fundamental frequency contours of both left-hemisphere damaged aphasic patients and right-hemisphere damaged non-aphasic patients have provided new data to further our understanding of brain and language mechanisms. The literature, however, is complex and even, in certain aspects, somewhat contradictory. This article attempts to assess the present ‘state-of-the-art’ of such studies, in order to provide a framework for directing future research. © 1992, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved. |