Toward a multi-modal and multi-level analysis of Chinese aphasic discourse

中文失语话语的多模态、多层次分析

• 批准号: 8058689
• 负责人: Pak Hin Anthony Kong
• 金额: $ 20.46万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8058689
• 关键词: Acquired Language Disorders; Adult; Aphasia; Aphasiology; Asians; Behavior; Brain Injuries; Cause of Death; China; Chinese People; Cities; Classification; Clinical; Code; Communication; Communities; Data; Data Collection; Databases; Development; Diagnosis; Education; Evaluation; Family; Foundations; Genetic Transcription; Goals; Guidelines; Health Professional; Hong Kong; Intervention; Investigation; Language; Language Disorders; Language Tests; Lead; Left; Life; Linguistics; Measures; Medical; Minority Groups; Monitor; Multimedia; North America; Pathologist; Performance; Population; Procedures; Production; Property; Protocols documentation; Psychologist; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Sampling; Speech; Staging; Standardization; Stroke; Structure; Survivors; Symptoms; System; Systems Analysis; Taiwan; Testing; Treatment Efficacy; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Verbal Behavior; Work; World Health Organization; aphasic; base; clinical Diagnosis; improved; insight; novel strategies; post stroke; public health relevance; remediation; theories; therapy design; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current project proposes to construct a corpus of discourse production of Chinese speakers with aphasia, one of the underrepresented minority groups as listed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This database will encompass information on distinctive linguistic properties in Chinese aphasia, prosodic features of the Chinese aphasic speech, and non- verbal behaviors of Chinese speakers with aphasia as a result of stroke. The establishment of the corpus will provide the necessary foundation for aphasiologists and clinicians for research investigations into theoretical and clinical issues related to acquired language disorders in Chinese. The overarching goal of this study is to improve the planning of assessment and remediation procedures for Chinese speakers with aphasia worldwide, including those living in North America. This can be achieved by actively sharing the major deliverables of this project with any clinicians and researchers who work with Chinese speakers with acquired language deficits, i.e., a standardized assessment procedure, a multimedia database, and a multi-level coding system. A four-year investigative project that will be carried out in Hong Kong, a city with a linguistically homogenous Chinese-speaking community in China, is proposed. In Stage 1 of this project (12 months), a protocol for language testing and speech sample elicitation that is linguistically and culturally appropriate for Chinese speakers will be developed. Normative data from 180 native normal speakers in Cantonese will be collected. In Stage 2 (15 months), 180 native aphasic speakers in Cantonese will be tested. The aphasic language samples, coded in internationally-accepted transcription and tagging systems, will serve as an empirical basis for linguistic investigations of Chinese aphasiology. Stage 3 of the project (21 months) will involve development of a multi-modal and multi-level assessment tool for guiding diagnosis and intervention planning in Cantonese aphasia. In addition, statistical analyses of language-impaired and normative data will be carried out to explore a new classification system that considers verbal and non-verbal behaviors of aphasic narrative in Cantonese. The database that is constructed in the present proposed study will be the first of its kind in Asian languages for studying aphasia. It will be significant in the terms of both theoretical and clinical aspects. In terms of theoretical aspects, the project will facilitate linguists, psychologists, neuro-linguists, and related professionals or scholars to get access to this database for research purposes. The Chinese data will allow for cross-linguistic comparisons and enrich theory generalizations of post-stroke aphasia. With reference to the multi-modal linguistic and non-linguistic empirical variables measured in this study, new approaches to classify aphasic speakers can also be developed. In terms of clinical aspects, this database can serve as a valuable resource of clinical education for speech and language pathologists and related medical health-care professionals. The observation and analysis of multi-modal linguistic and non-linguistic behaviors in aphasia can lead to the development of a new assessment tool for analyzing aphasic narrative in Cantonese and diagnosing aphasia types. Finally, the multi-level communication measures of verbal and non-verbal behaviors proposed in this project will be available for guiding treatment design, selecting and prioritizing treatment targets, and monitoring treatment efficacy and efficiency systematically. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The current project proposes to construct a corpus of discourse production, encompassing information on distinctive linguistic properties, prosodic features, and non-verbal behaviors, of Chinese speakers with aphasia as a result of stroke. The overarching goal of this study is to improve the planning of assessment and remediation procedures for Chinese speakers with aphasia worldwide, including those living in North America. The establishment of the corpus will provide the necessary foundation for aphasiologists and clinicians for research investigations into theoretical and clinical issues related to acquired language disorders in Chinese.

描述（由申请人提供）：当前项目提议构建一个失语症患者的话语生产语料库，失语症患者是美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 列出的代表性不足的少数群体之一。该数据库将包含有关汉语失语症的独特语言特性、汉语失语症语音的韵律特征以及因中风导致失语症的汉语使用者的非语言行为的信息。该语料库的建立将为失语症学家和临床医生研究汉语获得性语言障碍相关的理论和临床问题提供必要的基础。这项研究的总体目标是改善全世界（包括北美地区）失语症患者的评估和治疗程序规划。这可以通过与任何与具有后天语言缺陷的汉语使用者一起工作的临床医生和研究人员积极分享该项目的主要成果来实现，即标准化评估程序、多媒体数据库和多级编码系统。一项为期四年的调查项目将在中国香港这个拥有同质华语社区的城市进行。在该项目的第一阶段（12 个月），将制定一种在语言和文化上适合汉语使用者的语言测试和语音样本获取协议。将收集 180 名以普通话为母语的人的规范性数据。在第二阶段（15个月），将对180名以粤语为母语的失语者进行测试。失语症语言样本采用国际公认的转录和标记系统编码，将作为中文失语症语言学研究的实证基础。该项目的第三阶段（21个月）将涉及开发多模式和多层次的评估工具，以指导粤语失语症的诊断和干预计划。此外，还将对语言障碍和规范数据进行统计分析，以探索考虑粤语失语叙述的言语和非言语行为的新分类系统。本研究中构建的数据库将是第一个用于研究失语症的亚洲语言数据库。这无论在理论还是临床方面都具有重要意义。在理论方面，该项目将方便语言学家、心理学家、神经语言学家以及相关专业人士或学者访问该数据库进行研究。中国数据将允许跨语言比较并丰富中风后失语症的理论概括。参考本研究中测量的多模态语言和非语言经验变量，还可以开发对失语者进行分类的新方法。在临床方面，该数据库可以作为言语和语言病理学家以及相关医疗保健专业人员的临床教育的宝贵资源。对失语症多模态语言和非语言行为的观察和分析可以开发出一种新的评估工具，用于分析粤语失语叙述和诊断失语症类型。最后，本项目提出的言语和非言语行为的多层次沟通措施将可用于指导治疗设计、选择和优先考虑治疗目标以及系统地监测治疗效果和效率。 公共健康相关性：当前项目建议构建一个话语产生语料库，其中包含因中风而失语的汉语使用者的独特语言特性、韵律特征和非语言行为的信息。这项研究的总体目标是改善全世界（包括北美地区）失语症患者的评估和治疗程序规划。该语料库的建立将为失语症学家和临床医生研究汉语获得性语言障碍相关的理论和临床问题提供必要的基础。