Background Prosody serves central functions in language processing including linguistic
functions (linguistic prosody), like structuring the speech signal. Impairments in production …

Purpose: Persons with unilateral brain damage in the right hemisphere (RH) or left
hemisphere (LH) show limitations in processing linguistic prosody, with yet inconclusive …

Left hemisphere brain lesions resulting in aphasia frequently produce impairments in
speech production, including the ability to appropriately transmit linguistic distinctions …

Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to identify the presence and nature of
relationships between specific forms of aprosodia (ie, expressive and receptive emotional …

Background: Mapping adequacy of receptive prosodic abilities in speakers with hypokinetic
dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease (PD) is useful, because therapy of disturbed …

Purpose: Hemispheric specialization for the comprehension and expression of linguistic and
emotional prosody is typically attributed to the right hemisphere. This study used techniques …

Background Individuals with affective‐prosodic deficits have difficulty understanding or
expressing emotions and attitudes through prosody. Affective prosody disorders can occur in …

Stimuli from two previously presented comprehension tasks of affective and linguistic
prosody (Pell & Baum, 1997) were analyzed acoustically and subjected to several …

Although affective prosody appears to be a dominant function of the right hemisphere, its
degre of lateralization has not yet been established since various publications have reported …

Speech prosody can be decomposed into three features: pitch contour (variations in
fundamental frequency, f0), word stress (amplitude variation, dB), and timing variation …