A REVERSE LENGTH EFFECT IN DYSPHASIC NAMING - WHEN ELEPHANT IS EASIERTHAN ANT

When the influence of length on picture naming in dysphasia has been i nvestigated in the past, studies tend to show worse performance with l onger items (or no influence of stimulus length). This paper describes a man with dysphasia who is better at labelling pictures with long na mes than with short names: he demonstrates a reverse length effect. Th ree models which incorporate an output component are described. The de tails of the case study are given and discussed in relation to the pre dictions of these models regarding target length. This leads onto furt her predictions from one model (Butterworth, 1989) which are tested ag ainst the data.