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A client with anomic aphasia is a native speaker of Spanish with fair proficiency in English. Production of the word "shoes" as [tʃuz] on a repetition task is most likely due to which of the following factors?

A. Phonological interference from the speaker's native language
B. Semantic interference from the speaker's native language
C. Semantic paraphasia due to the aphasia
D. Phonemic paraphasia due to the aphasia

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The production of "shoes" as [tʃuz] by a Spanish-speaking client with anomic aphasia is most likely due to phonological interference from the speaker's native language, not aphasia-related errors.

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A client with anomic aphasia, a native speaker of Spanish with fair proficiency in English, producing the word "shoes" as [tʃuz] on a repetition task is most likely due to phonological interference from the speaker's native language. This kind of interference occurs when phonological rules from the native language affect the production of sounds in the second language. Anomic aphasia is characterized by difficulty in finding the appropriate words during speech, yet phonological interference is not a semantic error (related to the meaning of words) nor is it likely to be a phonemic paraphasia (a type of speech error associated with aphasia where sounds are substituted, omitted, or added in a word). Instead, it reflects the influence of the first language's sound system on the second language's pronunciation. Anomic aphasia typically does not interfere with phonological processing to this extent; hence, the more likely explanation is the influence of Spanish phonology on English word production.

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