@article{30fbb51921784bd983456fcff209cc45,
title = "Tone production deficits in nonfluent aphasic Chinese speech",
abstract = "Previous studies demonstrating a right hemisphere lateralization of musical, tonal, and intonational stimuli had suggested that in aphasic tone language speakers, the tonal phonemes might be subject to a lesser degree of deficit than consonantal phonemes. Using a word repetition task, this research demonstrates that left-damaged nonfluent aphasic speakers of Chinese experience a tonal production deficit which is both quantitatively and qualitatively equivalent to the deficit experienced by these speakers in the production of consonants. It is suggested that in tone languages, lexical specification of tone contour information results in left hemisphere lateralization of that information, thus making the tonal phonemes vulnerable to left hemisphere damage.",
author = "Packard, {Jerome L.}",
note = "Funding Information: An earlier version of this paper was presented to BABBLE 1985, Niagara Falls, Ontario. This research was performed under a Fulbright-Hays dissertation grant awarded to the author by the U.S. Department of Education through Cornell University. I thank Professors Barbara Lust, Barbara Finlay, Claudia Ross, Harold Goodglass, and John Bowers for assistance in theoretical background and experiment design. 1 also thank Professors Larry Hyman, Ovid Tzeng, Wayles Browne, Margaret Naeser, and Jack Gandour for helpful comments and assistance. In Taipei I thank Dr. Lien Chi-nan and Ms. Hsieh Fu-mei of National Taiwan University Hospital, Dr. Chu Fu-Ii, Dr. Su Ming-shung, Dr. Hsu Tao-chang, and Ms. Chung Yu-mei of Veterans{\textquoteright} General Hospital, Ms. Frances Wang and Ms. Jorie Wu of Chang Kung Hospital, and Ms. Sylvia Chen. In Beijing I thank Dr. Xu Liancang, Dr. Li Xintian, and Dr. Hu Chaoqun of the Psychology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zhu Yonglian of Tiantan Hospital, and Dr. Yang Hejun of the Voice Research Institute. Reprint requests may be addressed to Dr. Jerome L. Packard, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.",
year = "1986",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1016/0093-934X(86)90045-3",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "212--223",
journal = "Brain and Language",
issn = "0093-934X",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "2",
}