He has a short, greying beard and peppers his speech with fluent Arabic as he types on a silver MacBook.
This week the company introduced the software equivalent of a translator that can turn plain color speech into fluent computerese.
Given a final chance to defend herself, she pleaded her innocence in a measured 45-minute speech in fluent Spanish filled with references to the teachings of Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran archbishop, Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who argued for "preferential treatment of the poor".
Interestingly, each individual with either a deletion of SHANK3 or a truncated protein had severe language problems, whereas the individual with 22qter partial trisomy had precocious language development and fluent speech, but social communication difficulties.
They proposed that gestures produced during fluent speech originate early in speech processing, before formulation has occurred, and thus have a conceptual origin, whereas, gestures produced during word-finding difficulties originate at a later stage when lexical retrieval fails.
"People who stutter have motor difficulties in producing fluent speech," said Luc De Nil, a speech-language pathologist at the University of Toronto.
In Arabic, MH exhibited almost fluent speech, whereas in Hebrew his speech was characterized by word-finding pauses and paraphasic errors.
But that insight requires a sophisticated understanding of ironic language that develops long after fluent speech.
Thus both the iconic gestures produced during fluent speech and language are modulated by the semantic abilities of the person with aphasia.
Despite pronounced anomia and poor comprehension of words and pictures, SD patients have well-formed, fluent speech and normal digit span.
