Discursive Speech Research Articles

Significant Absences: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Silence and Joyce’s Poetics of the Unspoken


 
 
 This paper discusses an important phase in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s analytic philosophy through a comparative examination of the profound correspondences that exist between his concept of silence and the poetics of another crucial authorial figure of the 20th century: James Joyce. Based on the hypothesis that there are striking resemblances between their early works, that is, between Joyce’s realistic short-story collection Dubliners and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the article employs mostly close-reading, analytical-interpretative and comparative methods. It argues that silence was an intentional intellectual, aesthetic and ethical choice of both these authors, their way to preserve the autonomy of metaphysics and to honour the beauty of the unspoken.
 Starting from their common critical treatment of the habitual and largely alienated speech, the discussion connects Wittgenstein’s philosophical attitudes regarding the imprecision and inadequacy of every-day language and Joyce’s notion of ‘spiritual paralysis’ of the city-life, which he saw as the main motive for writing his collection about fin-desiècle Dublin. On the grounds of their shared views about the limits of words, behind which there are worlds that cannot be properly uttered, the idea of silence – or the highly significant narrative absence – grows to permeate the work of both. In the case of Wittgenstein, it is a call for a new philosophy, or anti-philosophy, which in negating metaphysics in effect preserves its independence from a discursive speech which cannot express it, whereas in the case of Joyce, correspondingly (and almost simultaneously), it is a quest for a new literary mode that will foreground a particular Modernist allusiveness, rhetoric of omission and deliberately incomplete, gnomonical narrative structures.
 
 

Consensus automatic speech recognition (CASR) in the California Cognitive Assessment Battery (CCAB).

Recent reports have investigated the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) to analyze and score verbal responses in cognitive tests. ASR scoring is objective, permits the efficient computerized administration of verbal tests, and generates timestamps that enable the detailed temporal analysis of responses. However, ASR transcription accuracy varies by engine, task, and participant, and ASR can incorrectly score responses from participants with atypical speech patterns. Here we describe the speech-transcription pipeline of the California Cognitive Assessment Battery (CCAB), which incorporates consensus ASR (CASR) to produce more accurate transcripts than possible with any single ASR engine. We also developed a Transcript Review Tool (TRT) which facilitates the manual correction of mis-transcribed words in problem subjects. Figure 1 shows the CCAB speech transcription pipeline. Realtime ASR transcriptions are obtained along with the transcriptions of the digital recordings of responses using six cloud-based ASR engines (e.g., Google, etc.). Individual transcripts are then combined to produce a "consensus" transcript, and a transcription confidence measure based primarily on the agreement between ASR engines (Figure 2). If needed, "consensus" transcripts can be manually corrected using the Transcript Review Tool which enables the review of all words or just those words below a predefined CASR confidence threshold (Figure 3). ASR transcriptions were obtained from 442 healthy adults (mean age = 65.1 ±14.4) who each underwent three days of cognitive testing that included 25 verbal tests. In all, approximately 276 hours of speech were transcribed. Preliminary analyses show that CASR transcription accuracy surpassed 99% for tests with limited response sets (e.g., digit span, verbal list learning, face-name binding, etc.) and exceeded 95% for discursive speech tests (e.g., picture description and logical memory). CASR transcription is more accurate than that of any single ASR engine. When combined with the TRT, "consensus" ASR can produce error-free, timestamped transcripts that enable the detailed analysis of verbal responses from older individuals at risk of cognitive decline.

Consensus Automatic Speech Recognition (CASR) in Cognitive Testing

AbstractBackgroundScoring verbal cognitive tests with automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines increases the efficiency of scoring and provides word timestamps that enable detailed temporal analyses of spoken responses. Here, we describe consensus ASR (CASR) procedures that incorporate multiple ASR engines to increase transcription and timing accuracy and generate CASR transcript confidence scores.MethodSeven ASR engines produced automatic transcriptions of both speech database samples (GMU Speech Accent Archive and NUS Auditory English Lexicon Project) and verbal test responses of 41 subjects from the California Cognitive Assessment Battery (CCAB). A novel Recognizer Output Voting Error Reduction (ROVER) algorithm was used to mutually align the transcripts, and a Bayesian weighted voting algorithm produced the best CASR transcript, mean word timestamps, and consensus scores. Word error rates (WER) gauged CASR accuracy against either predetermined or manually corrected transcripts.ResultDatabase sentence WERs from 1767 subjects ranged from a mean of 22% (Windows10 UWP) to 6% (Rev.ai) with CASR producing 5%, with no significant gender or age effects but better performance for native english speakers (Figure 1). In CCAB test responses, for limited word response tests CASR WERs ranged from 3% to less than 1% (Figure 2); for expansive word response tests CASR WERs ranged from 8% to 2% (Figure 3); and for discursive speech, CASR WERs ranged from 6% to 5%. Word start time ASR estimates for 594 database words in lists ranged in mean deviations from true times from 250ms std.dev. (Google) to 17ms std.dev. (Amazon) with CASR obtaining 14ms errors (Figure 4). Finally, consensus confidence scores from CCAB test responses, ranging from 0 to 1 (1 = complete agreement across ASR engines), show that CASR words with consensus scores above 0.8 and 0.9 are correct >99% and >99.8% of the time, respectively (Figure 5).ConclusionCASR produces transcripts for verbal test responses accurate enough for estimating scores in most limited word response tests. In large vocabulary response tests, CASR transcripts facilitate quick manual correction, and confidence values can identify transcript words needing manual correction. Patterns in CASR errors also indicate future substantial reductions to CASR WER on a per test basis.

SYSTEM OF TEXT-BASED EXERCISES FOR THE FORMATION OF DISCURSIVE SPEECH OF FUTURE PRESCHOOL EDUCATION SPECIALISTS DURING THE STUDY OF THE DISCIPLINE “PRESCHOOL LINGUODIDACTICS”

The article discovers the issue of forming discursive speech of future preschool education specialists. The scientific substantiation of the concepts “discourse”, “discursive speech” is given. The author emphasizes the importance of communicative competence as an integral part of the general professional training of preschool teachers. The purpose of the article is to highlight the specifics of the application of a properly constructed system of exercises (analytical, constructive, and creative), and its relationship with the methods, techniques of teaching discursive speech of future educators while studying the discipline “Preschool Linguodidactics”.Based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical, linguistic and linguodidactic literature, the author found that the achievements of modern preschool linguodidactics, which actively develops an approach to teaching connected speech from the standpoint of categorical features of the text, theory of communicative activity and functional-semantic types of speech (description, story, reflection). The future educators of preschool education should know these features, and should be guided by them, in the process of developing technologies for teaching children their native language. Linguistic scientists emphasize that exercises are an integral part of language learning, and note that people can get the right result from the development of connected speech, if they use a system of exercises (analytical, constructive, creative) as a necessary condition for producing description, speech, reflection.In the system of exercises developed by the author for the formation of discursive speech of future educators, the educational goal was chosen. The system of exercises for the formation of discursive speech proposed by the author takes into account the following criteria: the purpose of exercises, types of exercises, indicative types of tasks.The author sees the prospect of research in the use of the proposed system of exercises, as well as its further enrichment in content and supplementation by types of exercises, which will ensure the development of communication skills of preschool education specialists in working with discursive speech, will be a prerequisite for successful learning and professional growth.
 Keywords: discourse, discursive speech, types of exercises, preschool education specialists, discipline “Preschool Linguodidactics”, communicative competence, communication skills, speech development, functional-semantic types of speech.

Personal narrative as a “breeding ground” for higher-order thinking talk in early parent–child interactions.

Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experiences about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations-i.e., to engage in higher-order thinking talk (HOTT). Here we ask whether narratives in early parent-child interactions include proportionally more HOTT than other forms of everyday home language. Sixty-four children (31 girls; 36 White, 14 Black, 8 Hispanic, 6 mixed/other race) and their primary caregiver(s) (M income = $61,000) were recorded in 90-minute spontaneous home interactions every 4 months from 14-58 months. Speech was transcribed and coded for narrative and HOTT. We found that parents at all visits and children after 38 months used more HOTT in narrative than non-narrative, and more HOTT than expected by chance. At 38- and 50-months, we examined HOTT in a related but distinct form of decontextualized talk-pretend, or talk during imaginary episodes of interaction-as a control to test whether other forms of decontextualized talk also relate to HOTT. While pretend contained more HOTT than other (non-narrative/non-pretend) talk, it generally contained less HOTT than narrative. Additionally, unlike HOTT during narrative, the amount of HOTT during pretend did not exceed the amount expected by chance, suggesting narrative serves as a particularly rich 'breeding ground' for HOTT in parent-child interactions. These findings provide insight into the nature of narrative discourse, and suggest narrative potentially may be used as a lever to increase children's higher-order thinking.

Проблемно обусловленное предметное содержание дискурсивных речевых материалов в интегративном обучении переводческому аудированию

Проблемно обусловленное предметное содержание дискурсивных речевых материалов в интегративном обучении переводческому аудированию

Linguistic markers of emotional state of the speech subject (on the problem of automatic monitoring of network communication texts)

This paper discusses linguistic and psychological aspects of the problem of automatic modusdictum analysis of texts published in social networks and other electronic media. Thereupon, theoretical questions are raised anew on the linguistic nature of modus, on the means to express “ego-meanings” in speech, on the differentiation of proper modus (autoreferential signs) and modal-evaluating predicates in dictum position, on the implicit methods of communicating modus information, and the resources to read this information based on discursive speech practices (conventional meanings). The applied goal of the paper is to provide “humanitarian” (psychological and linguistic) support for development of machine “mining” programs, i. e. automatic monitoring of network content and text identification with a certain subjective modality. To achieve this goal, we describe, in particular, such lexical-grammatical features of the texts that can be significant for determining psychological state of an individual or a professional group to identify certain public opinions. Conceptually, this research is connected with the idea of speech system which is manifested both at the level of styles and genres and within independent communicative units, as well as with one of the most important trends in the field of artificial intelligence — the method of relational-situational analysis of texts in natural language. Thematic groups of words (TGW) were compiled including “evaluation collocations” typical of those texts. The templates created on the basis of psychological and linguistic description model suggested in this paper can be used hereafter to develop algorithms for automatic monitoring of the network texts of a given theme (professional stability or mobility, professional crisis, etc.) and evaluation.

De frente com as Gabis: a construção de uma celebridade do tecnobrega

This article proposes to examine the Place of Speech of Gaby Amarantos during two different interactions: an interview with Marilia Gabriela, on the TV show De frente com Gabi , aired by SBT, in 2012, and another interview on the same show, in 2014. The goal of this study is to understand how the artist’s actions while interacting with Marilia Gabriela are full of a speech about values of the cultural production that she is engaged with, as much as with the growth of media exposure that her career was going through at the time. Through a contextual approach of the artist’s media path, and a parallel between the two broadcast interviews, it was possible to understand how the context of social insertion of the artist, and the reach of success and media visibility, turning her into a celebrity, affected her discursive speech and the place that her cultural productions have been given. Keywords: Gaby Amarantos, place of speech, celebrity, cultural appreciation.

Creating communicative spaces in an action research study

To argue that creating communicative spaces in an action research study gave voice to young mothers who may otherwise have remained voiceless. Underpinning the concept of the communicative space in action research is the critical social theory of Jürgen Habermas, in particular, his theory of communicative action and the ideal speech situation. The author argues that in collaborative research, the successful creation of a communicative space is vital in enabling equitable and discursive speech to take place. This is a methodological paper. This approach provided a discursive space to participants who ordinarily may not have interacted, and led to the sharing of different perceptions and understandings that may not otherwise have been possible. This research pointed to the possibility of the ideal speech situation, and the value of opening up a communicative space for researchers and participants. Action research for professionals is a sometimes messy and time-consuming process. However, it is a rewarding approach that uncovers layers of interpretations and understanding that have meaning for the participants involved. The creation of communicative spaces has the potential to enrich nursing research because of its participatory nature, making it more likely that solutions reached will have meaning to people.

Apontamentos teóricos sobre Literatura de Viagens

Travel literature is a genre that combines different textual typologies and discusses the epistemological separation between ficiton and reality. These aspect make it a kind of border genre. To characterize travel literature is to think about the nature and complexity of the literary phenomenon which uses language as an intermediary between literature and reality and questions the capacity language has to represent reality. Because it is a genre in which the traveler, who is also the narrator, approaches a foreign culture, travel literature abounds with literary images of the other. Thus it is a fertile ground for studies that analyze the way a culture sees the ohter and the way discursive speech perpetuates stereotypes.

Contact of languages and populations in Morocco

The objective of this dissertation is language and populations contact in the plain of Tadla, situated in central Morocco around the city of Beni Mellal. This language contact setting presupposes common human and linguistic facts made up of heterogeneity, mixing, variation both within the same language, the same group of people as well as within different human groups. The languages concerned in this study are mainly Amazigh and Arabic and, to some extent, French. The groups investigated are the Chleuh, the Arabized, the Arabs and the Amazighized. The contact between the languages and groups concerns the linguistic ideal parallelism and the ideal identity. This research falls within a larger scope: that of the regionalisation and decentralisation in Morocco and could be introduced as an element for territory planning of the area investigated. This work could be a preliminary initiative study of the region of Tadla from a historical, demographic, geographical, linguistic and anthropological point of view. A good knowledge of the Moroccan territory and populations requires knowledge of the distribution of the languages and the populations and their point of contact. The study of the language and populations contact will help to apprehend the mixing and consequently predict the human and linguistic evolution and changes (i.e. the emergence of a mixed language) and lead to a redefinition of regionalisation on the basis of the linguistic and cultural particularities based on the findings of fieldwork research. From this perspective, our research has the advantage of dealing with a rural micro-structure, which will be described on the basis of the characteristic of the Arabic lect of Tadla, the linguistic features of the contact between Amazigh and Arabic, the impact of the socio-cultural interpenetration between the groups present, the maps of the linguistic boundaries which set the limits of isoglosses, the regional atlases of the lects and populations of the so-called contact areas, i.e. the plain of Tadla. The originality of the research consists in the investigation of both the languages and their populations on the basis of epilinguistic speech. Former works on the region have dealt with either one or the other. The study does not limit itself to the description of the phenomena but it also aims at accounting for and explaining the convergences between the populations and languages thanks to the consideration of all the elements which could influence variation. Our aim, indeed, is not to pre-categorize the range of manifestations of language and populations contact but to apprehend its modes. The general tendency is to show that the different human groupings in Tadla do in no way differ since they have the same representation of the world. The only difference lies in the modes of expression they use i.e. either Amazigh or Arabic to express their perception of the world. The goal is thus to give a general view about the lects in use, to provide a large corpus of epilinguistic speech and to propose a model for its categorization and interpretation. We aim at revealing that what appears to be different and dissimilar on the surface is nothing but the incarnation of the facets of the same and unique, profound and inherent characteristic, i.e. the Moroccan character. Given the dimension and nature of the language and populations contact data in the area of Tadla, we had to opt for an eclectic theoretical and methodological model that would include different models and disciplines such as geography, history, dialectology, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, anthropology, psychology, discourse analysis and linguistics. Thus, on the theoretical and methodological level, we have made use of an eclectic model including different perspectives that allow for the analysis of one or many aspects of the issue. The research methods used in this study (i.e. the indirect interview, participatory observation, direct “in vivo ” testimonies…) and the multi-disciplinary approach initiates a perspective that focuses on the group and the subjectivity of the discursive speech. The description of the language and population context that characterizes the area of Tadla led us to organize the study into two main parts: a descriptive and an interpretative part. This is mainly based on a methodological principle which aims at satisfying both the descriptive and the prescriptive levels. The practices and /or usages and the general theoretical model are raised and described in the first part. The epilinguistic speech is presented, discussed and interpreted in the second part. Since the speech is conceived as a causality that can modify the practices, the speech and practices are not considered at the same level of analysis.

Spirituality as the Performance of Desire: Calvin on the World as a Theatre of God's Glory

If well-crafted discursive speech is the coin of the realm in theology, metaphor is quintessentially the language of spirituality. John Calvin in sixteenth-century Geneva knew the value of both. His favorite metaphor in speaking of the natural world and its beauty was to describe it as a theatre of God's glory. Every human being, he said, is "formed to be a spectator of the created world and given eyes that he might be led to its author by contemplating so beautiful a representation." 1 Moreover, the principal actor in this vast theatrical production is none other than God alone, evoking desire by "showing himself in the visible splendor of his apparel." 2 As Calvin understood it, the contemplation of God's beauty on the great stage of nature is a performance that absorbs the whole of creation. It is the end toward which everything is made. 3

The First Amendment in an Age of Electronic Reproduction

The First Amendment in an Age of Electronic Reproduction Daniel Barbiero Ronald K.L. Collins and David Skover. The Death of Discourse. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. What, in an age of electronic mass communication, is the status of the First Amendment? Specifically, what is or should be the scope of First Amendment protection, given the seeming ubiquity electronic dissemination has afforded commercial speech and entertainment? Ronald Collins and David Skover raise and explore just such questions in their book, which examines the contemporary culture of free expression in the overlapping contexts of popular culture and commercial discourses. (In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention here that I know Collins and Skover and have discussed some of these issues with them in connection with the articles — subsequently and substantially rewritten — on which this book is based. I am acknowledged in the book for my part in these informal dialogues.) I Collins and Skover contend that there are operating at present two cultures of expression. The first, roughly corresponding to the political and intellectual elites, is that of discourse, while the second, roughly corresponding to mass cultures, is t hat of “the new free speech.” By their definition, “discourse” is speech resounding “with reason, with method, with purpose” (ii), while the new free speech consists in the “vernacular of the popular culture . . . in the service of self-gratification” (i i). Although the deliberative discourse of the elites has traditionally been afforded full First Amendment protection, this same protection has been increasingly granted to other forms of expression, thus creating a “wide gulf” separating the kind of (ve rnacular) expression now meriting protection from the deliberative speech the First Amendment was designed to protect (iii). Given this situation, the authors ask, “can the high values of free expression be squared with the dominant character of mass com munication in our popular culture?” (vi). Collins and Skover’s answer to this question is set out over the course of the book’s three main sections. In the first, they describe what they take to be the general problem created by contemporary First Amendment interpretation, while in the other two they look at the specific issues involved in determining the constitutional status of commercial speech and pornography. In the first section, the authors describe the defining problem of First Amendment interpretation as a “paratrooper’s paradox.” The image of the paratrooper is meant to convey the notion of one parachuting “into a territory hostile to old notions of free speech” (2). And the “paratrooper’s paradox” consists in the difficulty of reconciling a provision created to protect discursive speech from government tyranny with a culture accustomed to invoking that protection for even the most trivial forms of expression. The second section is devoted to an examination of the constitutional status of commercial speech. The argument is that modern, image-based advertisers demand constitutional protection by claiming association with the information-based advertising ch aracteristic of a previous era (84). And yet, the authors hold, it is just such image-based advertising that, far from furthering the original goals of the First Amendment, is threatening to turn “America’s marketplace of ideas . . . [into] a junkyard of commodity ideology” (64). In the third section, the authors examine the debate over whether or not full constitutional protections should apply to expression with an exclusively, or almost exclusively, sexual content. Collins and Skover choose pornography not only as a First Amendment test case, but also as the symbolic epitome of a debased culture of expression. To this end, they construct a fantasy anti-utopia they call “Pornutopia,” which is presented as the logical culmination of the intersection of commercialism, the el ectronic mass media, and indiscriminate First Amendment protection. Although the authors point out that such a state “is not quite America as we now know it” (117, emphasis in the original), they wish to offer a hypothetical object lesson i n what happens when expressive freedoms create an atmosphere in which discourse is degraded, electronic technologies are put at the service of profit and pleasure (130), and “private passion overrides public reason as the key rationale for constitu tional protection of expression” (127, emphasis in...

Ideal Speech Conditions, Modern Discourse and Education

Habermas's educational importance is usually misconstrued or underestimated, partly because the scope and implications of ideal speech conditions are generally misunderstood. These conditions are only relevant to discursive speech situations, but non-manipulative teaching need not be discursive. And not even discursive teaching is an appropriate occasion for ideal speech conditions. They properly apply to discourse institutions, at the ‘epistemic centre of modernity’. Thus, the concept of ideal speech conditions impinges on the relation of school to higher education and on curricular change as an agency of modernisation, and illuminates the need for access to discourse institutions, if personal autonomy is an aim for school children, students or adults. Neo-Marxists, traditionalists and progressives all misunderstand the importance of discourse institutions.

Ceci n'est pas un conte, la rhétorique du conversationnel

The constitution in the Middle Ages of a vernacular literature, through Chrétien de Troyes, to the structure of the modern novel shows the influence of orality and particularly of the rhetorics of discursive speech — any non-narrative organization of language — on narration. As Diderot's exemplary story, whose status the title denies, shows, narrative is part of sociability — or of the art of conversation.

Heidegger on the Divine: The Thinker, the Poet and God (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 247 Heidegger on the Divine : The Thinker, the Poet and God. By James L. Perotti. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1974. Pp. 134. $7.50) Those familiar with Heidegger will wonder how his infrequent and often oracular observations concerning "the holy," "divinity," "God" and "the gods," could inspire a booklength manuscript. However, this slender volume is even slimmer than it at first appears (perhaps this will help relieve that puzzle). Of 134 pages, 17 are footnotes (generally of the German text), 9 are a bibliography, 3 constitute the index. Of the remaining 105 pages, more than two-thirds "prepare" the topic. What we really have, then, is a rehashing of Heidegger's metahistory of philosophy for the purpose of showing why "after the overcoming of metaphysics, after the abandonment of the god of philosophy, Heidegger's thinking can properly be called god-less" (p. 117). Is it unfair to wonder why one would devote a book to a subject concerning which its author says, with reference to Heidegger's thought: "It is a kind of thinking which makes no claims about the divine and has no desire to speculate about this matter. Another way to characterize this thinking in regard to the divine is to call it a silence, a thinking that makes neither affirmation nor denial about god" (p. 117)? Given Heidegger's studied silence concerning "the divine," what is the book's point? The point and utility of Perotti's book seems to me to consist primarly in collecting Heidegger's scattered remarks concerning the divine and fitting them into a coherent and textually correct frame of reference. His thesis, stripped of nuances, is that Heidegger's putative overcoming of metaphysical thinking and speaking is simultaneously an overcoming of traditional theological ways of thinking and speaking. The god of theology is metaphysical, and "even if theology begins with an experience of its god, it remains metaphysical exactly because of its own metaphysical response to that experience" (p. 64). And of that response the later Heidegger has said: "Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the god of philosophy, god as causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor can he play music and dance before this god" (Identity and Difference). After a brief orienting chapter ("The Way of Martin Heidegger"), chapters 2, 3 and 4 place a gloss on Heidegger's familiar attempts first to provide a foundation for metaphysics and then to overcome it altogether. Chapter 5 paraphrases Heidegger's mythical approach to Being, an approach which follows quite naturally from his (to my mind lamentable) abandonment of "representational" (i.e., philosophical) thinking. With the abandonment of discursive speech we are left with poetry. And, again quite naturally, Perotti's penultimate chapter, "The Poet and the Thinker," is really an account of Heidegger on H61derlin. Whatever the strengths of Perotti's~book, its defects far outweigh them, in my opinion. I shall mention only a few here, for reasons of space. First, the scholarship is misleading. Often it is deficient. The early chapters are written as if no one had ever spoken to Heidegger's relation to the tradition. Werner Marx is never mentioned, for example. Taken independently , there are better books readily available for each chapter's theme. I have already mentioned Marx. Beda Allemann is better on Heidegger and H61derlin. He, too, is never mentioned. Considerations of scholarship apart for the moment, there is a second deficiency. Perotti's brief account often fails to explain. It merely paraphrases. The central failure of the book, however, is that it is totally uncritical. This will endear Perotti to Heidegger enthusiasts who imitate the master's "way of thinking" by mindless "explication" and for whom criticism is metaphysical original sin. But for philosophers the sins are oracular pronouncements and revivalist ontologies. One illustration may help. In paraphrasing Heidegger's account (in Logos) of Heraclitus's Fragment 50, Perotti writes: "The usual superficial translations understand little of what is said here; many translators term ambiguous his richness of meaning. A typical translation runs: listening not to me but to the Logos it is wise to agree that all things are...

The Psycholinguistic Analysis of Speech in Patients with Dynamic Aphasia (1)

In the clinical treatment of brain lesions, a special form of aphasia is encountered in which expanded discursive speech is seriously disturbed while the sensory and motor components of speech remain relatively intact. This form of aphasia, which results from a lesion of the anterior sections of the speech zone, is called dynamic aphasia.