Hughes C P, Chan J L, Su M S
Arch Neurol. 1983 Nov;40(12):732-6. doi: 10.1001/archneur.1983.04050110050007.
Recent publications, all involving native speakers of English, have established that lesions in the right cerebral hemisphere produce a deficit in the comprehension and execution of tonal change in language related to the affective component of prosody. We tested 12 Chinese patients with right-hemisphere lesions and seven controls for comprehension, discrimination, repetition, and expression of prosody and gesture. In 11 of the 12 patients, aprosodia was identified. The subjects were also tested for their ability to detect semantic tonal difference in Chinese. Only five of the 12 showed a mild deficit in this task, suggesting that the left cerebral hemisphere is more dominant for comprehension of tone essential to word meaning.
近期所有涉及以英语为母语者的出版物均已证实，右脑半球的损伤会导致在理解和执行与韵律情感成分相关的语言音调变化方面出现缺陷。我们对12名患有右半球损伤的中国患者和7名对照者进行了韵律和手势的理解、辨别、重复及表达能力测试。在12名患者中的11名身上发现了韵律缺失。还对这些受试者检测汉语中语义音调差异的能力进行了测试。12名受试者中只有5名在这项任务中表现出轻微缺陷，这表明左脑半球在理解对词义至关重要的音调方面占主导地位。
