Deep and Surface Dyslexia in Chinese

Yin, Wengang; Butterworth, Brian

doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(08)61897-x

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“…The finding of a significant regularity effect in reading Chinese characters supports the presence of the sublexical route in Chinese (e.g., Ho & Bryant, 1997). There are also cases reported to have selective impairment of the sublexical route in Chinese adults with acquired dyslexia (Yin & Butterworth, 1992).…”

Section: Is There a Sublexical Route In Chinese?supporting

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“…Analogous to the nonword reading in English, pseudocharacter reading is considered a good measure of the sublexical route in Chinese (Yin & Butterworth, 1992). A Chinese pseudocharacter is made up of a phonetic radical and a semantic radical in their legal positions but with the combination being a nonsense character.…”

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In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia

Chan

Chung

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia

Chan

Chung

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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“…When the semantic pathway is impaired, no constraints will be put on the pronunciations, leading to a large number of regularization errors characteristic of surface dyslexia. Studies have reported acquired deep and surface dyslexia cases in Chinese in support of the model (Law & Or, 2001;Law, Wong, & Chiu, 2005;Yin, 1991;Yin & Butterworth, 1992). Besides the two subtypes described above, Weekes et al hypothesized that mild damage to the nonsemantic pathway would produce a type of phonological dyslexia characterized by effects of imageability on reading.…”

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The subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese: evidence from three cases

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This study investigated subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese by assessing three cases of Chinese dyslexic children. A battery of screening measures, a character naming and meaning task, and metalinguistic awareness tasks were administered to each child. One of the three children demonstrated characteristics of developmental surface dyslexia, and the other two showed characteristics of developmental deep dyslexia. Moreover, the children's reading problems were found to be specifically related to their deficits in metalinguistic awareness. The dissociation between developmental surface and deep dyslexia provides support to Weekes et al.'s (Neurocase 1997; 3: 51-60) model that a semantic and a nonsemantic pathway exist independently in Chinese reading. The results also suggest that deficits in morphological and phonological awareness may cause developmental delays in the semantic and the nonsemantic pathway.

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“…However, in recent years more detailed and theory-minded investigations into these areas have begun to emerge. For reading, some focused on welldocumented syndromes in alphabetic systems such as deep and surface dyslexia and their manifestation in the Chinese language (Yin, 1991;Yin & Butterworth, 1992); some went further and examined the mechanisms underlying reading of single words in Chinese (Weekes & Chen, 1999;Weekes et al, 1998;Weekes, Chen, & Yin, 1997a, b). For writing, proposals have been made about the structure of orthographic representations of Chinese characters on the basis of the forms of writing errors produced by brain-damaged patients (Law, 1994;Law & Caramazza, 1995;.…”

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A Case Study of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Cantonese: Evidence for Nonsemantic Pathways for Reading and Writing Chinese

Law¹,

Or²

2001

Cognitive Neuropsychology

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We report a Cantonese-speaking brain-damaged patient, CML, who demonstrates better oral reading than oral naming and better writing to dictation than written naming. Such dissociations are taken as evidence for nonsemantic routes for the production of spoken and written Chinese words. The occurrence of tonal errors in CML's reading aloud informs us about the structure of phonological representations. We propose that it is a nonlinear structure, similar to that which has been proposed in tonal phonology of Chinese. Specific impairment to these representations may lead to a dissociation between segmental and suprasegmental information. Finally, the similarity of CML's neologistic responses in oral and written naming, and her production of tonal errors in writing to dictation and written naming, favour the mediated version of the nonsemantic pathway for writing more than the unmediated pathway.

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Deep and Surface Dyslexia in Chinese

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia

In search of subtypes of Chinese developmental dyslexia

The subtypes of developmental dyslexia in Chinese: evidence from three cases

A Case Study of Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia in Cantonese: Evidence for Nonsemantic Pathways for Reading and Writing Chinese

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