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Syntactic mediation is not obligatory during lexical access: evidence from a single-case study of Welsh Aphasia

Syntactic mediation is not obligatory during lexical access: evidence from a single-case study of Welsh Aphasia
Syntactic mediation is not obligatory during lexical access: evidence from a single-case study of Welsh Aphasia
Current models of word production assume the existence of functionally distinct lexical-syntactic and word-form representations. However, there are competing hypotheses about whether prior access to syntactic properties of words is obligatory during lexical retrieval. In this paper we report preliminary evidence from the single case study of a Welsh-speaking patient with a lexical access deficit. We examined the patient’s ability to access word forms and to retrieve information about the grammatical gender of Welsh nouns. The data show no correlation between the retrieval of word-form and grammatical gender information. This pattern of performance is inconsistent with hypotheses postulating obligatory syntactic mediation in lexical production.

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Leek, E.C.
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Wyn, R.
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Tainturier, M.-J.
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Leek, E.C.
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Wyn, R.
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Tainturier, M.-J.
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Leek, E.C., Wyn, R. and Tainturier, M.-J. (2003) Syntactic mediation is not obligatory during lexical access: evidence from a single-case study of Welsh Aphasia. Brain and Cognition, 53 (2), 268-272. (doi:10.1016/s0278-2626(03)00124-6).

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Current models of word production assume the existence of functionally distinct lexical-syntactic and word-form representations. However, there are competing hypotheses about whether prior access to syntactic properties of words is obligatory during lexical retrieval. In this paper we report preliminary evidence from the single case study of a Welsh-speaking patient with a lexical access deficit. We examined the patient’s ability to access word forms and to retrieve information about the grammatical gender of Welsh nouns. The data show no correlation between the retrieval of word-form and grammatical gender information. This pattern of performance is inconsistent with hypotheses postulating obligatory syntactic mediation in lexical production.

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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2003
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 September 2003
Published date: November 2003

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Local EPrints ID: 493558
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/493558
PURE UUID: 4195b921-b198-4fb4-8385-9d96582def63
ORCID for E.C. Leek: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9258-7504

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Last modified: 09 Nov 2024 03:12

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Author: E.C. Leek ORCID iD
Author: R. Wyn
Author: M.-J. Tainturier

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