A discussion on the article ‘Generalised improvement in speech production for subject with reproduction conduction aphasia‪’‬

Speech production, the prime language activity of human beings, involves a process
of cognitive endowment. It includes some internal mechanism of language production
that engages several chronological stages like auditory analysis system, phonological
input lexicon, phonological output lexicon, and output buffer. Here, impairments in
former two stages exhibit comprehension problems of speech production of human
beings, whereas impairments in later two stages denote production deficiency in this
regard (Basso, 2003: 127). In the article ‘Generalised improvement in speech
production for subject with reproduction conduction aphasia’ Sue Franklin, Frauke
Buerk, and David Howard depicted a case study of a patient MB who faced a problem
with speech production especially phonological encoding process at the post lexical
level that includes phonological output lexicon and output buffer. Thus, MB made
frequent phonological production errors in all modalities but reduced significantly
after some therapy sessions conducted by the authors of the article.