Effects of frequency in the distribution of disfluencies in language production of Czech speakers with aphasia

Abstract

The poster presented an exploratory analysis of the distribution of disfluencies in the production of prepositional phrases by speakers with aphasia. The analysis showed that modified PP were produced more disfluently.

Furthermore, frequency of use was found to influence fluency. PPs with higher cooccurrence frequency were produced more fluently.

This finding is inline with the predictions of usage-based construction grammar.

Keywords

• aphasia
• prepositional phrase
• disfluency
• fluency
• corpus linguistics
• usage-based linguistics
• construction grammar