A discussion on the article 'Generalised improvement in speech production for subject with reproduction conduction aphasia'

Literature Review from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, University of Potsdam, course: Developmental Language Disorder, language: English, abstract: Speech production, the prime language activity of human beings, involves a process

of cognitive endowment. It includes some internal mechanism of language production

that engages several chronological stages like auditory analysis system, phonological

input lexicon, phonological output lexicon, and output buffer. Here, impairments in

former two stages exhibit comprehension problems of speech production of human

beings, whereas impairments in later two stages denote production deficiency in this

regard (Basso, 2003: 127). In the article ¿Generalised improvement in speech

production for subject with reproduction conduction aphasiä Sue Franklin, Frauke

Buerk, and David Howard depicted a case study of a patient MB who faced a problem

with speech production especially phonological encoding process at the post lexical

level that includes phonological output lexicon and output buffer. Thus, MB made

frequent phonological production errors in all modalities but reduced significantly

after some therapy sessions conducted by the authors of the article.