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Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia

David Playfoot Orcid Logo, Cristina Izura Orcid Logo, Jeremy Tree Orcid Logo

Neuropsychologia, Volume: 51, Issue: 9, Pages: 1673 - 1683

Swansea University Authors: David Playfoot Orcid Logo, Cristina Izura Orcid Logo, Jeremy Tree Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.015

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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 t...

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ISSN: 0028-3932
Published: 2013
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title Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia
spellingShingle Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia
David Playfoot
Cristina Izura
Jeremy Tree
title_short Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia
title_full Are acronyms really irregular? Preserved acronym reading in a case of semantic dementia
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description 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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