title: Compounds in different aphasia categories: a study on picture naming.
abstract: This study investigated the production of compounds in Italian-speaking patients affected by different aphasia categories (i.e., Broca's, Wernicke's, and anomic aphasia) in a confrontation naming task. Questions of theoretical interest concerning the processing of compounds within the framework of the "lemma theory" as well as the role of morphological productivity in compound processing are addressed. Results indicate that all persons with aphasia retain knowledge of the morphological status of words, even when they fail to retrieve the corresponding phonological form (the "compound effect"). A difference was found among aphasia categories in the type of errors produced (omission vs. substitution) and in the position (first or second) of these errors within the compound words. In Broca's aphasia, the first component is omitted more frequently than the second one, but only in verb-noun compounds. Anomic and Wernicke's aphasia, unlike in Broca's aphasia, seem to retain sensitivity to morphological productivity.
authors: Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
authors: Carlo
authors: C
authors: Semenza
authors: Serena
authors: S
authors: De Pellegrin
authors: Irene
authors: I
authors: Battel
authors: Martina
authors: M
authors: Garzon
authors: Francesca
authors: F
authors: Meneghello
authors: Valentina
authors: V
authors: Chiarelli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001037:Aphasia / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000523:psychology; D001041:Aphasia, Wernicke / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D009275:Names; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult