Phonological impairments in Hindi aphasics: Error analyses and cross-linguistic comparisons

Abstract

We assessed phonological and apraxic impairments in Hindi persons with aphasia (PwA) and compared them to Italian PwA reported in previous studies. Overall, we found strong similarities. Phonological errors were present across production tasks (repetition, reading and naming), most errors were non-lexical and, among those, a majority involved individual phonemes. There were significant effects of length, but not frequency. Hindi PwA, like the Italian PwA, showed strong effects of syllabic structure, with most errors occurring on consonants and weak syllabic positions, preserving syllable structure and simplifying phonemes or syllabic templates. These similarities were modulated by some language-specific patterns. Vowel insertions were more common in Hindi, possibly due to the presence of a central vowel, and segmental simplifications concentrated on marked aspiration and retroflection features. We hope our study will encourage further research in Hindi and other Indian languages. This will improve clinical diagnosis and our understanding of cross-linguistic differences.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2024.2315825
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
Funding Information: This research was funded by Universitas21 and the University of Birmingham Graduate School travel bursary to the first author.
Additional Information: Copyright © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Cognitive Neuropsychology and published on 26th February 2024. This version is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords: speech errors,Hindi,phonological errors,aphasia
Publication ISSN: 1464-0627
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2024 07:56
Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2024 13:24
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2024-02-26
Published Online Date: 2024-02-26
Accepted Date: 2023-12-15
Authors: Ramoo, Dinesh
Galluzzi, Claudia
Olson, Andrew
Romani, Cristina (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-5693-4131)

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