“…Highly practiced and more automatic linguistic processing tasks, such as reading, are thought to be relatively preserved (Cummings, Houlihan, & Hill, 1986; Friedman, Ferguson, Robinson, & Sunderland, 1992; Sasanuma, Sakuma, & Kitano, 1992). However, in moderate stages of cognitive impairment patients exhibit increased difficulty reading low-frequency words with irregular spelling-to-sound correspondences (e.g., Strain, Patterson, Graham, & Hodges, 1998, possibly reflecting semantic impairments, Glosser, Grugan, & Friedman, 1999), and articulation rate is decreased while proportion of pauses is increased in connected speech elicited via reading aloud (Martínez-Sánchez, Meilán, García-Sevilla, Carro, & Arana, 2013; see review in Glosser & Grossman, 2004).…”