Table 1. Frequency of error types in foreign accent syndrome and foreign accent-like syndrome cases.
Error types | Reading words | Reading text | Spontaneous speech | |||||||||
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Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 1 | Case 2 | Case 1 | Case 2 | |||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Segmentals | ||||||||||||
Syllable addition | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Syllable omission | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 6 |
Phoneme addition | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Phoneme omission | 0 | 0 | 12 | 41 | 5 | 72 | 9 | 30 | 5 | 62,5 | 22 | 44 |
Phoneme substitution | 4 | 100 | 12 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 46 |
Morphemic errors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12,5 | 0 | 0 |
Total errors | 4 | 100 | 29 | 100 | 7 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 8 | 100 | 50 | 100 |
Suprasegmentals | ||||||||||||
Atypical pauses (syllables) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Atypical pauses (words) | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 50 |
Inappropriate accent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
Inadequate word stress | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Excessive pitch variations | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 50 |
Total errors | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100 | 6 | 100 |