Affiliations: Department of General Psychology, University of Padua,
Padua, Italy | Casa di Cura Figlie di San Camillo, Cremona,
Italy | Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua and
I.R.C.C.S. Ospedale S. Camillo, Lido di Venezia, Italy
Note: [] Corresponding author: Sara Mondini, Department of General
Psychology, Via Venezia 8, 35131, Padua, Italy. Tel.: +39 049 8276641; Fax: +39
049 8276600; E-mail: sara.mondini@unipd.it
Abstract: Reading and writing Noun-Noun compound nouns was investigated in two
Italian aphasic patients: one with phonological dyslexia and the other with
phonological dysgraphia. The patients were required to read, write and repeat a
list of Noun-Noun compounds and length-matched non-compound nouns. The dyslexic
patient RF read compounds better than non-compounds, and his repetition was
flawless for both categories. The dysgraphic patient DA wrote non-compounds
better than compounds because of a deficit in keeping separate entries at the
lemma level. Differential performance when processing compounds and
non-compounds is the result of a deficit in different components within the
mental lexicon architecture.
