Dual Processing of Open- and Closed-Class Words  

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Biassou, Nadia ; Obler, Loraine K. ; Nespoulous, Jean-Luc ; DORDAIN, MONIQUE ; Harris, Katherine S.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 57 no. 3 (1997), page 360-373.
Fulltext: 57_03_Biassou.pdf (77.78KB)

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A series of articles in the past two decades has suggested differential processing of open- and closed-class lexical items by normal adults. Difficulties in replicating a crucial study (Bradley, 1978), however, have weakened the dual route hypothesis. We matched 16 French open-class items to 16 closed-class items for phonological structure, word length, and relative word frequency. Three agrammatic aphasics were asked to read each word in isolation and in a sentence context. Error analysis revealed strikingly more phonological errors on closed-class than open-class items. Dysfluencies were greater on closed-class items and contributed to greater overall reading time for the closed-class words, consistent with a two-route model for the production of closed- and open-class lexical items in Broca’s aphasics and, thus, normals.

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