Surface Dyslexia

Neuropsychological and Cognitive Studies of Phonological Reading

K. Patterson, J. C. Marshall, M. Coltheart, Karalyn Patterson, John C. Marshall, Max Coltheart

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351609777
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
• Index: Psychology

A child with developmental dyslexia or an adult with a reading disorder following brain damage might read the word shoe as 'show', why does this happen?

Most current information processing models of reading distinguish between two alternative procedures for the pronunciation of a printed word. The difference between these concerns the level at which orthography is translated to phonology in one, the word-level procedure, a word is read aloud with reference to knowledge specific to that whole word. In the other, the sub-word-level procedure, a printed word is pronounced with reference to knowledge about smaller segments which occur in many different words.

Both procedures contribute to normal skilled reading and its acquisition. But if one of the procedures is disrupted, then oral reading will be forced to rely on the alternative routine. Surface dyslexia is a general label for any disorder of reading which results from inadequate functioning of the word-level procedure and in consequence abnormal reliance on sub-word level translation from orthography to phonology.

Originally published in 1985, this book provides new evidence about the diverse manifestations of surface dyslexia in adult neurological patients and in children with developmental disorders of reading. The data are drawn from speakers of a range of languages with distinct orthographies. Process models for the pronunciation of print are elaborated, and an appendix gives neurological information on the patients reported.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Phonetic Alphabets
• General Introduction
• Part I: Case Studies of Acquired Surface Dyslexia
• Introduction
• 1. Whole-word and Analytic Translation of Spelling to Sound in a Non-semantic Reader
• 2. Reading and Writing by Letter Sounds
• 3. Lexicalisation and Reading Performance in Surface Dyslexia
• Part II: Comprehension in Surface Dyslexia
• Introduction1
• 4. Routes to Meaning in Surface Dyslexia
• 5. Routes and Strategies in Surface Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
• 6. Common Mechanisms in Dysnomia and Post-semantic Surface Dyslexia: Processing Deficits and Selective Attention
• 7. Word Comprehension in Surface Dyslexia
• Part III: Surface Dyslexia in Various Orthographies
• Introduction2
• 8. Surface Dyslexia in a Language Without Irregularly Spelled Words
• 9. Surface Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: How Are They Manifested in Japanese?
• 10. Dyslexia in a Dravidian Language
• Part IV: Surface Dyslexia and the Development of Reading
• Introduction3
• 11. Surface Dyslexia: Variations Within a Syndrome
• 12. On How We Read Non-Words: Data From Different Populations
• 13. Beneath the Surface of Developmental Dyslexia
• Part V: Modelling the Pronunciation of Print
• Introduction4
• 14. From Orthography to Phonology: An Attempt at an Old Interpretation
• 15. Phonological Reading: From Patterns of Impairment to Possible Procedures
• 16. The “Phonemic” Stage in the Non-lexical Reading Process: Evidence from a Case of Phonological Alexia
• 17. Issues in the Modelling of Pronunciation Assembly in Normal Reading
• Part VI: Neurological Appendix
• 18. CT Scan Correlates of Surface Dyslexia
• Author Index
• Subject Index