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Ciaghi, Maddalena; Pancheri, Elisa; Miceli, Gabriele – Brain and Language, 2010
We studied the reading performance of 340 consecutive, Italian-speaking aphasics in order to evaluate the clinical features of deep dyslexia, the functional impairments underlying semantic paralexias, and their neuranatomical correlates. Semantic paralexias were observed in 9/340 subjects (2.4%). Our data and a review of the literature show that…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Semantics, Dyslexia, Aphasia
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Peressotti, Francesca; Job, Remo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2003
Notes that, according to dual-route models of reading, consistency effects in pseudoword reading are evidence for the activation of lexical information. Investigates whether lexical interference has a semantic or non-semantic origin. Provides evidence for the existence of a lexical non-semantic pathway in reading aloud among a group of Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Italian, Models
Boschi, Filippo; And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
After reviewing previous research on the acquisition of vocabulary through contextual clues, research carried out with 429 students in the upper grades of an Italian elementary school is discussed. (12 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries