title: When two and too don't go together: a selective phonological deficit sparing number words.
abstract: We report the case of an Italian speaker (GBC) with classical Wernicke's aphasia syndrome following a vascular lesion in the left posterior middle temporal region. GBC exhibited a selective phonological deficit in spoken language production (repetition and reading) which affected all word classes irrespective of grammatical class, frequency, and length. GBC's production of number words, in contrast, was error free. The specific pattern of phonological errors on non-number words allows us to attribute the locus of impairment at the level of phonological form retrieval of a correctly selected lexical entry. These data support the claim that number words are represented and processed differently from other word categories in language production.
authors.affiliation: Communication Sciences Program, Hunter College, City University of New York 10010, USA. gbencini@hunter.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Giulia M L
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Bencini
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pozzan
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bertella
authors.forename: Ileana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pignatti
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ceriani
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Semenza
mesh_terms: D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011932:Reading; D013060:Speech