Abstract
We describe the case of a brain-damaged individual whose speech is characterized by difficulty with practically all words except for elements of the closed class vocabulary. In contrast, his written sentence production exhibits a complementary impair meal involving the omission of closed class vocabulary items and the relative sparing of nouns. On tile basis of these differences we argue: (1) that grammatical categories constitute an organizing parameter of representation and/or processing for each of the independent modality-specific lexicons, and (2) that these observations contribute to the growing evidence that access to the orthographic and phonological forms of words can occur independently.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 248-286 |
Number of pages | 39 |
Journal | Brain and Language |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Speech and Hearing