PURPOSE: to analyze the [+liquid] phonemes in two types of syllabic structure in production of speech of 35 Venezuelan subjects whit Broca's aphasia, with the purpose of determining if these structures are conserved or lost. METHODS: a sample of speech was used. It was obtained from conversations recorded with the subjects, 12 men and 23 women. From that sample, the syllabic productions with CCV and CV structure were selected in order to determine the frequencies and the possible errors or substitutions. RESULTS: from the total of analyzed syllabic structures, all of them showed a similar structure to the Spanish syllable. The CCV and CV structures were maintained. None of the observed errors contained sequences of badly formed sounds. CONCLUSIONS: it was possible to determine that in the production of speech of the aphasic subjects there is a great link with the syllabic structure, regardless of the reduction, assimilation, substitution, and elision processes. In addition, it is suggested that the syllable is a functional unit codified in the level of phonetic programming.
Aphasia; Broca; Speech Production Measurement; Speech
