Rhinoglotalphilia as an enunciative strategy in the interlocution between a child with excessive nasality and her speech therapy professiona

Abstract

This paper shows and analyzes the hypothesis that the affinity between nasal constraint and glotal articulation in speekers with excessive nasality is a consequence of the need to give acoustical cues to the interlocutor. The language data of a four years old child with velopharingeal incompetence by motor paresy, collected in clinical speech therapy situation, are analysed by an ampliated approach of Émile Benveniste theory. A qualitative method was utilized for the analasys. The results show the relationship between the interlocutor interpretation limitations and rhinoglotalphilia intensification in the girl’s speech.