The left periphery in neglect dyslexia

Linguistic structure modulates attention in reading: Evidence from negative concord in Italian

“…In written Hebrew (which is right-to-left), Friedmann et al (2011) found a tendency to omit and substitute sentence final elements when they were syntactically optional. Abbondanza et al (2020) also found syntactic effects in Neglect Dyslexia in Italian. They examined Clitic Left Dislocation and contrastive/corrective focus structures.…”

“…They compared sentences with elements presented in the left periphery of the sentence, such as in the Clitic Left Dislocation structure in example 1 (Table 1), where a constituent is left-dislocated and a co-referring resumptive clitic occurs sentence-medially, with sentences as in example 2 (Table 1) where the constituent occurs in its canonical (non-dislocated) position. Abbondanza et al (2020) found that speakers with Neglect Dyslexia made fewer neglect errors in reading sentence initial material (i.e., within the first three words of the sentence) when it structurally corresponded to the left periphery of the sentence, than when it did not.…”

Linguistic theory and aphasia: an overview

“…Beyond aphasia Arcara et al (2020) and Abbondanza et al (2020) studies are different from the studies above in that they do not focus on aphasia but on related disorders: TBI (Arcara et al, 2020) and neglect dyslexia (Abbondanza et al, 2020).…”

“…These studies demonstrated that language difficulties encountered in aphasia and related disorders are best explored within theoretical frameworks based on which falsifiable hypotheses and predictions can be generated and tested. Of the nine studies included in this SI, seven studies focused on aphasia (Adelt et al, 2020;Aziz et al, 2020;Martínez-Ferreiro et al, 2020;Martini et al, 2020;Maviş et al, 2020;Nerantzini et al, 2020;Peristeri et al, 2020) and two studies focused on disorders related to aphasia: traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Arcara et al, 2020) and neglect dyslexia (Abbondanza et al, 2020). The studies on aphasia included a review paper (Martínez-Ferreiro et al, 2020), five studies on syntactic processing (Adelt et al, 2020;Aziz et al, 2020;Martini et al, 2020;Maviş et al, 2020;Peristeri et al, 2020), and a study on morphosyntactic/morphosemantic production (Nerantzini et al, 2020).…”

“…In a syntactically informed study, Abbondanza et al (2020) investigated the reading abilities of nine Italian-speaking individuals with neglect dyslexia. The authors tested the hypothesis that the syntactic structure of the sentence modulates the attention of people with neglect dyslexia.…”