effet de marque

English translation: idiosyncratic / personal idiosyncracy

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French term or phrase:effet de marque
English translation:idiosyncratic / personal idiosyncracy
Entered by: B D Finch

09:37 Jan 26, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / speech therapy
French term or phrase: effet de marque
Is this maybe "scoring effect" or does it have some other specialist meaning?
Many thanks

"L’existence de tendances préférentielles dans les erreurs des sujets, liées au fait qu’elles peuvent être interprétées en termes d’effet de marque, vont dans le sens de l’existence d’un déficit d’ordre plus moteur que pré-moteur"
Comunican
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:14
idiosyncratic / personal idiosyncracy
Explanation:
www.ldail.org/Hyplexi.cfm
"He was already in speech therapy at this time, and he had learned that if ... ability has been dismissed as rote learning, a splinter skill or a savant idiosyncrasy. ... and repetitive speech, pronominal reversals, and idiosyncratic use of words ..."

www.stamres.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/html/stammering.issue3.pubd.h...
"... of the various idiosyncrasies that accompany stammering may have an impact. ... "

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"id·i·o·syn·cra·sy (d--sngkr-s)
n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies
1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
[Greek idiosunkrsi : idio-, idio- + sunkrsis, mixture, temperament (sun-, syn- + krsis, a mixing; see ker- in Indo-European roots). ...

idiosyncratic [ˌɪdɪəʊsɪŋˈkrætɪk] adj
of or relating to idiosyncrasy; characteristic of a specific person"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/idiosyncratic



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As "effet de marque" is used about "tendances préférentielles dans les erreurs des sujets", it seems that it is referring to the identification of idiosyncratic speech patterns, rather than the detail of stressing particular phonemes.
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B D Finch
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Summary of answers provided
4distinctive feature selection errors
SJLD
3distinguishing feature
liz askew
3idiosyncratic / personal idiosyncracy
B D Finch


Discussion entries: 8





  

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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
distinguishing feature


Explanation:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_q=marquer la distinction e...

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The Pronunciation of Canadian French Douglas C. Walker
www.ucalgary.ca/~dcwalker/PronCF.pdf
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
by DC Walker - 1984 - Cited by 110 - Related articles
The description of Canadian French which follows is the product of a number of ... including a list of the distinctive phonetic features and a glossary, is found in the ..... Given this merger, the only way of distinguishing mute-e is now through its ...

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distinctive - English-French Dictionary WordReference.com
www.wordreference.com/enfr/distinctive - Translate this page
distinctive feature, n, (distinguishing characteristic), trait distinctif nm. Jimmy Durante's most distinctive feature was an overly large nose. Le trait distinctif de ...

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marquer la distinction = to distinguish

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Note added at 56 mins (2012-01-26 10:33:29 GMT)
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TL ET TES, ART II : L'ARTISTE EST-IL UN GENIE? - Le blog de Caute!
laphiloduclos.over-blog.com/.../TL_ET_TES_AR... - Translate this page
On marque traditionnellement cette distinction par la différence entre les verbes créer et fabriquer. Fabriquer c'est produire "dans les règles" en appliquant des ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:14
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
idiosyncratic / personal idiosyncracy


Explanation:
www.ldail.org/Hyplexi.cfm
"He was already in speech therapy at this time, and he had learned that if ... ability has been dismissed as rote learning, a splinter skill or a savant idiosyncrasy. ... and repetitive speech, pronominal reversals, and idiosyncratic use of words ..."

www.stamres.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/html/stammering.issue3.pubd.h...
"... of the various idiosyncrasies that accompany stammering may have an impact. ... "

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-01-26 10:56:20 GMT)
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"id·i·o·syn·cra·sy (d--sngkr-s)
n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies
1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.
[Greek idiosunkrsi : idio-, idio- + sunkrsis, mixture, temperament (sun-, syn- + krsis, a mixing; see ker- in Indo-European roots). ...

idiosyncratic [ˌɪdɪəʊsɪŋˈkrætɪk] adj
of or relating to idiosyncrasy; characteristic of a specific person"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/idiosyncratic



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As "effet de marque" is used about "tendances préférentielles dans les erreurs des sujets", it seems that it is referring to the identification of idiosyncratic speech patterns, rather than the detail of stressing particular phonemes.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 18:14
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 100
Grading comment
Thank you B D French and everyone else who offered help on this.
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
distinctive feature selection errors


Explanation:
Clinical Neuropsychology - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0195384873...Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward Valenstein - 2011 - Medical - 720 pages
Some phonemic selection errors can equally well be viewed as distinctive feature selection errors (Lecours & Lhermitte, 1969). For example: /bat/ → /pat/ ...

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See also "markedness effect" (literal translation):

Persée : Les perturbations phonétiques et phonémiques : nouvelles ...
www.persee.fr/.../lgge_0458-726x_1989_num_24... - Translate this page
by R Beland - 1989 - Cited by 6 - Related articles
Nous traiterons dans cet article des erreurs phonétiques et/ou phonémiques ... Lecours et Lhermitte (1969) est discutée dans de nombreux travaux (Poncet et al., ...... Phonological disturbances in aphasia : is there a « markedness effect » in

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See p 17 here for explanation of "markedness" theory.
http://books.google.lu/books?id=FdG9NbgzjbYC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA1...

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After substantial research in both languages, no doubt in my mind that this is referring to "markedness".

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789494/

SJLD
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