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Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia
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Cristina Izura ,
Jeremy Tree
Neuropsychologia, Volume: 51, Issue: 9, Pages: 1673 - 1683
Swansea University Authors:
David Playfoot , Cristina Izura , Jeremy Tree
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.015
Abstract
This paper describes the performance of a patient with semantic dementia on tasks involving acronym reading. Patient JD’s ability to categorise, recognise and read aloud acronyms was assessed longitudinally over a period of 18 months. Most acronyms have orthographic and phonological configurations t...
| Published in: | Neuropsychologia |
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| ISSN: | 0028-3932 |
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2013
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This paper describes the performance of a patient with semantic dementia on tasks involving acronym reading. Patient JD’s ability to categorise, recognise and read aloud acronyms was assessed longitudinally over a period of 18 months. Most acronyms have orthographic and phonological configurations that are different from English words (BBC, DVD, HIV). This has led to the assumption that they must be processed in the same way as irregular words. Semantic dementia leads to deficits in irregular word reading while reading accuracy for regular words is retained. The decline in JD’s semantic system led to increasingly impaired semantic categorisation and lexical decision for acronyms relative to healthy controls. However, her accuracy for reading aloud acronyms pronounced letter by letter remained near ceiling. It is therefore argued that not all acronyms can be considered irregular. |
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| Keywords: |
Acronyms, semantic dementia, regularity, context, reading |
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Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Issue: |
9 |
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1673 |
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1683 |