Dysprosody or Altered “Melody of Language.”

Monrad‐Krohn, G. H.

doi:10.1093/brain/70.4.405

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“…6 Pitch pattern analysis is relevant to other domains too and underlies the 'melody of language' as one aspect of prosody. 7 A question that arises immediately is whether subjects with tone deafness might have deficits in prosody perception. When required to make statement-question judgements about phrases, tone-deaf subjects were found to perform as well as controls.…”

Section: Characterising a Complex Phenotypementioning

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Tone deafness: a model complex cortical phenotype

Griffiths

2008

Clinical Medicine

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-We all know people with tone deafness: these are the people who get thrown out of the choir at school. Although tone deafness is recognised as an output disorder, recent studies have characterised it as one of music perception in the absence of deafness or any associated cognitive disorder. The disorder can therefore be characterised as a form of auditory agnosia. This article considers how the phenotype might be deconstructed to the level of a causal deficit in the perception of pitch pattern. Based on our evolving understanding of the normal brain bases for this process a cortical deficit beyond primary cortex would be predicted. In tone deafness, structural cortical variations have been demonstrated by recent studies that detect subtle changes in the cortical mantle and underlying white matter: these changes are within a right hemisphere network for pitch pattern analysis and working memory for pitch. Studies of multiply affected families are underway to see if the disruption of this network can be caused by single genes. This disorder therefore offers the opportunity to study how a complex phenotype can be characterised as a cortical perceptual disorder potentially explained by a single gene or molecule. Although tone deafness is not pernicious, the underlying abnormality may prove to be a disorder of cortical connectivity that provides a model for disorders that are more so, such as schizophrenia.

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Section: Characterising a Complex Phenotypementioning

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Tone deafness: a model complex cortical phenotype

Griffiths

2008

Clinical Medicine

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“…e.g. (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)), very few of these studies have used nonexperimental speech data and/or have taken an interactional perspective on the topic (cf. (15,16) for a couple of exceptions, albeit from somewhat different perspectives).…”

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Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Lind¹

2007

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

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The article explores aspects of the role of prosody as a contextualisation cue in aphasic conversation through auditory and acoustic analysis of an aphasic speaker's use of pitch variation in responses to closed yes/no-requests. The results reveal two prosodic realisations of 'yes' and 'no' contextualising different kinds of responses: a flat realisation with no prolongation and minimal pauses, signalling decisiveness, and a realisation with movement in pitch, prolongation and preceding pauses, signalling indecisiveness. The analysis also shows how the aphasic uses a particular realisation manipulatively for interactional purposes. The study illustrates the vital role that seemingly unimportant details play in the co-constructive process of creating meaning in interaction. The results indicate an area of competence that seems undisturbed in this speaker.

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“…Perhaps the most well-known case of FAS is the Norwegian woman who was struck by a bomb fragment during World War II and developed a German accent upon recovery, causing her to be ostracized in her home country. 1,2 While some are perceived to develop foreign accents, other cases have been reported in which the accent developed is a different dialect of the same nation. [3][4][5] In FAS, the listener perceives the speaker as being a non-native speaker.…”

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Foreign Accent Syndrome Secondary to Medication Withdrawal: A Case Report

Schuh¹

2017

Innov Pharm

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Dysprosody or Altered “Melody of Language.”

Cited by 290 publications

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Tone deafness: a model complex cortical phenotype

Tone deafness: a model complex cortical phenotype

Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Foreign Accent Syndrome Secondary to Medication Withdrawal: A Case Report

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