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Havas, Viktoria; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Clahsen, Harald – Brain and Language, 2012
This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Spanish, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Meteyard, Lotte; Patterson, Karalyn – Brain and Language, 2009
In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers. Relative to controls, patients were significantly…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
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Rastle, Kathleen; Tyler, Lorraine K.; Marslen-Wilson, William – Brain and Language, 2006
Morphological errors in reading aloud (e.g., "sexist" [right arrow] "sexy") are a central feature of the symptom-complex known as deep dyslexia, and have historically been viewed as evidence that representations at some level of the reading system are morphologically structured. However, it has been proposed (Funnell, 1987) that morphological…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Reading Aloud to Others, Error Analysis (Language)