Final Lengthening in Parkinsonian French speech
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The ensuing study examined the impact of Parkinson disease (PD) on the duration of CV syllables in different positions within phrases and the distribution of final lengthening (FL) on syllable subcomponents. The results showed that PD patients produced normal FL and that the FL effects can be attributed primarily to vowels. This suggests that the syntactic function of prosody is intact in PD patients at least at the early and mild stages of the disease and that the basal ganglia are implicated in the linguistic representation of prosody.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008