The autonomy of the orthographic pathway in a shallow language: Data from an aphasic patient

Cuetos, Fernando; Labos, Edith

doi:10.1080/02687040042000313

Cited by 21 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Thus, A.D.'s problem was attributed to the subprocess of phonetic blending, which forms part of the functions attributed to the orthographic to phonological conversion system, used in the nonlexical route, but which leaves lexical processing intact. Similar cases have subsequently been described in Spanish-speaking patients (see, for example, Dansilio & Dalmas 1997;Cuetos & Labos, 2001;Cuetos, Martínez, Martínez, Izura, & Ellis, 2003;Ferreres, López, & China, 2002;Ferreres, Martínez-Cuitiño, Jacubovich, Olmedo, & López, 2003;Iribarren, Jarema, & Lecours, 1999).…”

supporting

confidence: 63%

Evidence for Linguistic Deficit in Nonlexical Processing in Reading. A Study of a Spanish-Speaking Patient

2008

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Previous studies have shown that in the so-called opaque languages (those in which spelling does not correspond to pronunciation), there are relatively independent routes for lexical and nonlexical processing, that is, for words and nonwords, both in spoken and in written language. On the other hand, in the so-called transparent languages (those in which pronunciation corresponds to written forms), empirical evidence is scarcer. In this study of a neurological patient (parieto-temporal lesion), speaker of a transparent language (Spanish) showing a specific deficit in nonlexical reading processing, linguistic analysis for words was relatively preserved. This finding suggests the use of various routes in the processing of transparent languages. Keywords: reading, nonlexical, transparent languageEstudios previos han mostrado que los llamados lenguajes opacos (en los que la ortografía no se corresponde con la pronunciación), hay rutas relativamente independientes para el procesamiento léxico y no léxico, es decir para palabras y no palabras, tanto en lengjaue hablado como escrito. Por otro lado, en los llamados lenguajes transparentes (en los que la pronunciación se corresponde con las formas escritas), hay menos evidencia empírica. En este estudio de un paciente neurológico (lesión parieto-temporal), que habla un lenguaje transparente (español), mostrando un déficit específico en el procesamiento de lectura no léxica, el análisis lingüística para las palabras estaba relativamente preservada. Este descubrimiento sugiere el uso de varias rutas en el procesamiento de los lenguajes transparentes.

show abstract

supporting

confidence: 63%

Evidence for Linguistic Deficit in Nonlexical Processing in Reading. A Study of a Spanish-Speaking Patient

2008

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A more recent case is reported by Cuetos and Labos [14]. JD is a Spanish-speaking reader who pre-sented a severe impairment of nonword reading, together with evidence of lexical reading.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Acquired Dyslexia in Spanish: A Review and Some Observations on a New Case of Deep Dyslexia

Davies

Cuetos

2005

Behavioural Neurology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Readers and writers of Spanish use an orthography that is highly transparent. It has been proposed that readers of Spanish can rely on grapheme-phoneme correspondences, alone, to access meaning or phonology from print. In recent years, a number of case studies have yielded evidence inconsistent with this idea. We review these studies with particular focus on those that report evidence for reading based on direct lexical mappings between print, orthographic representations, and meaning or phonology. We report a new case of acquired literacy impairment in Spanish, MJ, who presents a pattern of preserved abilities and deficits symptomatic of deep dyslexia. The patient is unable to read nonwords, but can read a substantial number of words. Her reading is characterized by the production of semantic, visual, and derivational errors. We argue that MJ has a deficit in her lexical selection ability, common to both her reading and her naming problems. We propose that MJ, and the other cases we review, demonstrate that lexical reading is adopted by skilled readers even in a transparent language.

show abstract

“…Surface dyslexia has most often been reported in languages with opaque, nonalphabetic scripts such as Chinese (Law & Or, 2001;Weekes & Chen, 1999), and Japanese (Patterson, Suzuki, Wydell, & Sasanuma, 1995), but has also been reported in languages with transparent scripts including Dutch (Diesfeldt, 1992), Italian (Miceli & Caramazza, 1993), and Spanish (Cuetos & Labos, 2001;Iribarren, Jarema, & Lecours, 1999). There also are reports of parallels between the impaired lexical reading of brain damaged patients and developmental reading and writing disorders in Italian (Angelelli, Judica, Spinelli, Zoccolotti, & Luzzatti, 2004) and Spanish (see Weekes, 2005).…”

Section: Models Of Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acquired dyslexia in a turkish-english speaker

Raman

Weekes

2005

Ann. of Dyslexia

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Turkish script is characterised by completely transparent bidirectional mappings between orthography and phonology. To date, there has been no reported evidence of acquired dyslexia in Turkish speakers leading to the naïve view that reading and writing problems in Turkish are probably rare. We examined the extent to which phonological impairment and orthographic transparency influence reading disorders in a native Turkish speaker. BRB is a bilingual Turkish-English speaker with deep dysphasia accompanied by acquired dyslexia in both languages. The main findings are an effect of imageability on reading in Turkish coincident with surface dyslexia in English and preserved nonword reading. BRB's acquired dyslexia suggests that damage to phonological representations might have a consequence for learning to read in Turkish. We argue that BRB's acquired dyslexia has a common locus in chronic underactivation of phonological representations in Turkish and English. Despite a common locus, reading problems manifest themselves differently according to properties of the script and the type of task.

show abstract

The autonomy of the orthographic pathway in a shallow language: Data from an aphasic patient

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Evidence for Linguistic Deficit in Nonlexical Processing in Reading. A Study of a Spanish-Speaking Patient

Evidence for Linguistic Deficit in Nonlexical Processing in Reading. A Study of a Spanish-Speaking Patient

Acquired Dyslexia in Spanish: A Review and Some Observations on a New Case of Deep Dyslexia

Acquired dyslexia in a turkish-english speaker

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About