Purpose: Speech fluency has important diagnostic implications for individuals with
poststroke aphasia (PSA) as well as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and quantitative …

Abstract Language production provides important markers of neurological health. One
feature of impairments of language and cognition, such as those that occur in stroke aphasia …

Pauses in speech are indicators of cognitive effort during language production and have
been examined to inform theories of lexical, grammatical and discourse processing in …

ABSTRACT Background: Familiar collocations (eg,“it's alright”) are an important part of
everyday conversation. Such word combinations are often retained in speakers with Broca's …

Background Functional and usage-based theories of language are gaining increasing
influence in linguistics. These theories understand language structure as underpinned by …

Background Language sample analysis is a common tool for inventorying an individual's
linguistic strengths and weaknesses. Although most research has focused on quantifying …

It is assumed that there are a static set of “language regions” in the brain. Yet, language
comprehension engages regions well beyond these, and patients regularly produce familiar …

Pauses in speech are indicators of cognitive effort. The frequency, location, and duration of
filled (eg, um) or silent pauses reveal neurocognitive processes underpinning language …

We investigated whether individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS) produce language with a
bias towards statistical properties of word combinations rather than grammatical rules …

Purpose Formulaic language is an under-explored area of research in the field of acquired
language disorders as compared to propositional language. The primary purpose of this …