Insertion of discrete phonological units: An articulatory and acoustic investigation of aphasic speech

Correspondence should be addressed to Adam B. Buchwald, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; E-mail: [email protected] This research was supported by the IGERT Program in the Cognitive Science of Language at Johns Hopkins University, National Science Foundation Grant 997280. Preparation of the paper was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant awarded to David Pisoni. Portions of these data were presented at the Speech Error Workshop at MIT (June, 2005) and to audiences at Indiana University, Ohio State University, and Johns Hopkins. Portions of this work were submitted as part of the first author’s doctoral dissertation (Johns Hopkins University, 2005). The authors would like to thank Paul Smolensky for invaluable intellectual contributions to this project. Additionally, this work has benefited from the helpful comments of Melissa Epstein, Marianne Pouplier, Justin Halberda, Gregory Ball, Susannah Levi, David Caplan and two anonymous reviewers. We thank Joanna Kochaniak and Ebonye Gussine for comments and assistance with various portions of this work, and David Pisoni for comments and providing a supportive environment during the preparation of this paper. Most importantly, we thank VBR for her willing and enthusiastic participation in this study. LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES 2007, 22 (6), 910 948