Motor Speech Disorders : : A Cross-Language Perspective / / ed. by Nick Miller, Anja Lowit.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Aichert, Ingrid,; Barreto, Simone dos Santos,; Brendel, Bettina,; Castro-Caldas, Alexandre,; Cera, Maysa Luchesi,; Chan, Kit Ying,; Colaço, Dora,; Duez, Danielle,; Gallego, Carlos,; Goldstein, Rutherford,; Jonkers, Roel,; Kuschmann, Anja,; Laganaro, Marina,; Lowit, Anja,; Ma, Joan K-Y.,; Maassen, Ben,; Manjula, R.,; Martín-Aragoneses, María-Teresa,; Melle, Natalia,; Merwe, Anita van der,; Miller, Nick,; Mineiro, Ana,; Nishio, Masaki,; Ortiz, Karin Zazo,; Roux, Mia Le,; Schalling, Ellika,; Sharma, Naresh,; Terband, Hayo,; Tyrone, Martha E.,; Venet, Mary Overton,; Vitevitch, Michael S.,; Whitehill, Tara L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Lowit, Anja,; Miller, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Motor speech disorders are a common accompaniment of a whole range of neurological conditions, from stroke, brain injury and Parkinson's disease through to many rarer conditions. This book aims to aid understanding of the nature of motor speech disorders from a cross-language perspective, in contrast to the largely English-centric nature of research and practice recommendations to date. The book looks not just at how these motor speech disorders are assessed and treated in other countries, but also examines how underlying speech impairments differ according to the language someone speaks. The book studies the underlying neurological, neurophysiological and neurophonetic characteristics of motor speech disorders in different language contexts, and discusses the implications these have for clinical rehabilitation. This significantly adds to debates around the theoretical understanding and clinical management of motor speech disorders.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1: Setting the Scene -- 2. Introduction: Cross-Language Perspectives on Motor Speech Disorders -- 3. Motor Speech Disorders: What are They? -- 4. Motor Speech Disorders: Issues in Assessment and Management -- 5. Using English as a 'Model Language' to Understand Language Processing -- 6. Cross-Language Studies in Deaf Signers -- 7. Apraxia of Speech in Bilingual Speakers as a Window into the Study of Bilingual Speech Motor Control -- 8. Phonological and Speech Output in Adult Non-Literate Groups -- Part 2: Language Specific Profiles and Practices -- 9. Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Selected African Languages: Zulu and Tswana -- 10. Motor Speech Disorders in Chinese -- 11. Diagnosis and Therapy in Adult Acquired Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Dutch -- 12. Some Segmental and Prosodic Aspects of Motor Speech Disorders in French -- 13. German Language Contributions to the Understanding of Acquired Motor Speech Disorders -- 14. Motor Speech Disorders in Languages of the Indian Subcontinent: Some Perspectives from Hindi and Kannada -- 15. Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Japanese Speakers -- 16. The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Portuguese -- 17. The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Spanish -- 18. The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Swedish -- 19. Conclusion