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A systematic review of prosodic abilities in children with dyslexia compared to...
Carneiro, Tânia; Frota, Sónia; Carvalhais, Lénia; Luzio, Juliana; Filipe, Marisa G.Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent difficulties in word reading, decoding, and spelling despite adequate instruction, is associated with prosodic atypicalities. This systematic review synthesized research comparing prosodic abilities of children with dyslexia with their typically developing peers. Studies were retrieved from PubMed and EBSCOhost (APA PsycInfo, Academic Search Co...
Perceived infant discomfort linked to lower maternal oral health quality of lif...
Garrido, Lisetty; Rodrigues, Inês; Lyra, Patrícia; Proença, Luís; Botelho, João; Frota, Sónia; Mendes, José João; Machado, VanessaAim: We aimed to explore whether there is an association between maternal perceived infant discomfort due to suggestive gastrointestinal alterations and oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) through a survey. Materials and Methods: The present study included two main phases involving Portuguese-speaking parents with full-term infants aged 2–12 weeks old who were not previously hospitalized in a neonatal ...
Editorial: Language across neurodevelopmental disorders
Filipe, Marisa G.; Abbeduto, Leonard; Frota, Sónia; Carvalhais, LéniaThe development of language is critical to meet the demands and challenges of contemporary societies. Unfortunately, many children do not master language skills at rates or levels consistent with their chronological ages, and language impairments during childhood tend to persist across the development with lifelong implications for academic, social-emotional, and behavioral functioning (Conti-Ramsden et al., 20...
(Dys)Prosody in Parkinson’s disease: effects of medication and disease progress...
Frota, Sónia; Cruz, Marisa; Cardoso, Rita; Guimarães, Isabel; Ferreira, Joaquim; Pinto, Serge; Vigário, MarinaAbstract: The phonology of prosody has received little attention in studies of motor speech disorders. The present study investigates the phonology of intonation (nuclear contours) and speech chunking (prosodic phrasing) in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), as a function of medication intake and progression of the disease. Following methods of the prosodic and intonational phonology frameworks, we examined the ability ...
Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach
Rodrigues, Evelina Daniela; Maroco, João; Frota, SóniaDifferent methodologies applied in human and non-human primate studies limit the comparisons that can be made. The early communicative gestures of 10 children between 7 and 12 months were analysed using a descriptive approach usually found in non-human primate studies. Silent-visual gestures were the most used, followed by contact and audible gestures. The use of the different modalities of gestures did not dif...
(Dys)Prosody in Parkinson’s Disease: effects of medication and disease duration...
Frota, Sónia; Cruz, Marisa; Cardoso, Rita; Guimarães, Isabel; Ferreira, Joaquim J; Pinto, Serge; Vigario, MarinaThe phonology of prosody has received little attention in studies of motor speech disorders. The present study investigates the phonology of intonation (nuclear contours) and speech chunking (prosodic phrasing) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) as a function of medication intake and duration of the disease. Following methods of the prosodic and intonational phonology frameworks, we examined the ability of 30 PD patie...
Emergence of consonant sandi in European Portuguese: a prosodic approach
Malho, Alexandra; Correia, Susana; Frota, SóniaIn European Portuguese, the domain for sandhi phenomena is the intonational phrase. Unlike the intonational phrase, the phonological phrase has been shown to be only relevant for rhythm and prominence-related phenomena (Frota, 2000, 2014). Fricative voicing between words (casa[ʒb]rancas, casa[ʃp]retas) and ressylabification before vowel-initial words (casa[zɐ]marelas) occur within the intonational phrase. In th...
The rhythm of interlanguage in the production of European Portuguese by Chinese...
Zhou, Chao; Cruz, Marisa; Frota, SóniaThe present research examines the rhythmic properties of European Portuguese spoken by native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Based on the rhythm metrics and corpora used in previous studies focused on the comparison across different languages and varieties (Ramus, Nespor & Mehler, 1999; Frota & Vigário, 2001), we aimed at determining the rhythmic properties of the interlanguage and discussing the factors...
Emergência de sândi consonântico em Português Europeu: uma abordagem prosódica
Malho, Ana Alexandra; Correia, Susana; Frota, SóniaIn European Portuguese, the domain for sandhi phenomena is the intonational phrase. Unlike the intonational phrase, the phonological phrase has been shown to be only relevant for rhythm and prominence-related phenomena (Frota, 2000, 2014). Fricative voicing between words (casa[ʒb]rancas, casa[ʃp]retas) and ressylabification before vowel-initial words (casa[zɐ]marelas) occur within the intonational phrase. In th...
Building a prosodic profile of European Portuguese varieties: the challenge of ...
Cruz, Marisa; Oliveira, Pedro; Palma, Pedro; Neto, Bruno; Frota, SóniaIn the present paper we explore a methodology to map prosodic variation in Portuguese, namely intonation and rhythm, which goes beyond the traditional approaches used to represent segmental, lexical or syntactic variation. To find the most adequate mapping method for intonation and rhythm, we tested spatial interaction models for the representation of nuclear contours, and spatial interpolation methods for rhyt...