Reading mechanisms and the organisation of the lexicon: Evidence from acquired dyslexia

Caramazza, Alfonso; Miceli, Gabriele; Silveri, Maria Caterina; Laudanna, Alessandro

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“…Funnell (1983) argued against this position because, despite demonstrating a total inability to read nonwords, her patient, WB, had no problems in reading function words and affixed words. Caramazza, Miceli, Silveri, and Laudanna (1985), having studied two Italian patients, made a claim similar to Funnell's, and five phonological dyslexic patients studied by Berndt, Haendiges, Mitchum, and Wayland (1996) also had no notable function word deficit. Thus, there are a number of recorded cases in which the reading of nonwords and of grammatical morphemes dissociate (see also the cases of BTT, Shallice &Warrington, 1980, andof RE, Campbell &Butterworth, 1985).…”

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“…According to the hypotheses of Friedman and Patterson et al, we would expect that in patients with a less than total deficit, function words that are more meaningful and more imageable would be read correctly whereas those fulfilling only syntactic roles would not (see Friederici, 1981Friederici, , 1982, for a similar argument explaining selectivity in the omission of prepositions in agrammatism). Caramazza et al (1985) considered the possibility that the grammatical morpheme deficit is an independent deficit, unrelated to the inability to read nonwords. Patients with impaired nonword reading and well-preserved grammatical morpheme reading provide an important source of evidence in favour of this hypothesis (e.g., Berndt et al, 1996;Caramazza et al, 1985;Funnell, 1983).…”

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“…Caramazza et al (1985) considered the possibility that the grammatical morpheme deficit is an independent deficit, unrelated to the inability to read nonwords. Patients with impaired nonword reading and well-preserved grammatical morpheme reading provide an important source of evidence in favour of this hypothesis (e.g., Berndt et al, 1996;Caramazza et al, 1985;Funnell, 1983). There are, however, two potential problems with this type of evidence.…”

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The syntax of single words: Evidence from a patient with a selective function word reading deficit

Druks¹,

Froud²

2002

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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We describe the reading performance of a patient who has selective deficits for reading nonwords, function words, and morphologically complex words in isolation. His reading of highly abstract nouns and verbs, however, is relatively well preserved. He can recognise and comprehend the meaning of written function words, of derivational morphology, and of most inflectional morphology. We suggest that his deficit in reading grammatical morphemes is unrelated to his problems in reading nonwords and cannot be explained by their low semanticity and imageability. The patient's speech is ungrammatical but is not devoid of grammatical morphemes and his reading of functional elements improves when these are presented within the context of sentences. We argue that syntactic information relevant to individual lexical items including information about how the word may potentially be used within a phrase must be accessed during single word reading tasks (e.g., Levelt, 1989). This is particularly difficult for function words due to their linguistic specification, which is different from that of lexical categories (Chomsky, 1995). Both linguistic theory and Garrett's (e.g., 1982) model of sentence processing account for the patient's improved reading of function words in the context of sentences.

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The syntax of single words: Evidence from a patient with a selective function word reading deficit

Druks¹,

Froud²

2002

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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“…In fact, it is perfectly possible for a full-listing hypothesis to hold true for the access representation, whereas the associated lexical entry is organized on a morphemic basis. The Augmented Addressed Morphology theory (Caramazza, Miceli, Silveri, & Laudanna, 1985;Laudanna & Burani, 1985) is one example of this.…”

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Morphology and meaning in the English mental lexicon.

Marslen–Wilson

Tyler²,

Waksler³

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Psychological Review

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The authors investigated the lexical entry for morphologically complex words in English, Six experiments, using a cross-modal repetition priming task, asked whether the lexical entry for derivationally suffixed and prefixed words is morphologically structured and how this relates to the semantic and phonological transparency of the surface relationship between stem and affix. There was clear evidence for morphological decomposition of semantically transparent forms. This was independent of phonological transparency, suggesting that morphemic representations are phonologically abstract. Semantically opaque forms, in contrast, behave like monomorphemic words. Overall, suffixed and prefixed derived words and their stems prime each other through shared morphemes in the lexical entry, except for pairs of suffixed forms, which show a cohort-based interference effect.

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“…Here we brie y discuss how the Augmented Addressed Morphology (AAM) model (Caramazza, Miceli, Silveri, & Laudanna, 1985;Caramazza et al, 1988; but see also Frauenfelde r & Schreuder, 1991;Marslen-Wilson et al, 1994, for similar models) can account for the lexical decision data with pseudowords.…”

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Morpho-lexical Representations in Naming

Laudanna¹,

Cermele²,

Caramazza³

1997

Language and Cognitive Processes

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In two naming experiments, it was shown that response times for morphologically structured pseudowords are faster than those for orthographically matched controls. These results are consistent with those obtained in lexical decision tasks with morphologically structured pseudowords. The implications of these results for models of lexical processing are considered. In particular, it is argued that the results reported provide support for compositional models of lexical knowledge.

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Reading mechanisms and the organisation of the lexicon: Evidence from acquired dyslexia

Cited by 108 publications

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The syntax of single words: Evidence from a patient with a selective function word reading deficit

The syntax of single words: Evidence from a patient with a selective function word reading deficit

Morphology and meaning in the English mental lexicon.

Morpho-lexical Representations in Naming

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