B. Rapp et A. Caramazza, THE MODALITY-SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES - EVIDENCE FROM IMPAIRED SPOKEN AND WRITTEN SENTENCE PRODUCTION, Brain and language, 56(2), 1997, pp. 248-286
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79
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Psychology, Experimental",Neurosciences
We describe the case of a brain-damaged individual whose speech is cha
racterized by difficulty with practically all words except for element
s of the closed class vocabulary. In contrast, his written sentence pr
oduction exhibits a complementary impairment involving the omission of
closed class vocabulary items and the relative sparing of nouns. On t
he basis of these differences we argue: (1) that grammatical categorie
s constitute an organizing parameter of representation and/or processi
ng for each of the independent, modality-specific lexicons, and (2) th
at these observations contribute to the growing evidence that access t
o the orthographic and phonological forms of words can occur independe
ntly. (C) 1997 Academic Press