PURPOSE To verify the universal nature of the phonological processing deficit hypothesis for dyslexia, since the most influential studies on the topic were conducted in children or adults speakers of English. RESEARCH STRATEGY A systematic review was designed, conducted and analyzed using PubMed, Science Direct, and SciELO databases. SELECTION CRITERIA The literature search was conducted us...

Assuming a generative principle of description for speech utterances, in particular a syllable-based phonological representation and the C/D model of phonetic implementation of uterrances, the basic question is discussed: how abstract phonetic representations as an optimal symbolic description of speech utterances should be. Several examples from a variety of languages in the world, including K...

The central hypothesis of this study was that phonological mediation plays a critical role in the early development of reading and spelling in French. Therefore, the phonological structure of items, as opposed to their visual characteristics, was expected to be a significant determinant of performance. This hypothesis was tested in a short term longitudinal study with a group of first graders (...

We report the case of DPI, an aphasic patient who shows a phonological impairment in production that spares certain syntactic and semantic categories. On a picture naming task, he produces mostly phono-logical paraphasias, and the probability of producing a correct response depends on the frequency and length of the target word. This deficit occurs in the presence of spared ability to find the ...

This study investigated the time course of phonological encoding during speech production planning. Previous research has shown that conceptual/semantic information precedes syntactic information in the planning of speech production and that syntactic information is available earlier than phonological information. Here, we studied the relative time courses of the two different processes within ...

Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have difficulty with, amongst other things, non-word repetition tasks. This paper presents preliminary research into the nature of the phonological deficit in SLI. We report results from four SLI children tested on a new set of non-words which, unlike previous sets, takes metrical and syllabic complexity into account. Most errors occur in non-wor...

Orthographic systems vary dramatically in the extent to which they encode a language's phonological and lexico-semantic structure. Studies of effects orthographic transparency suggest that such variation is likely have major implications for how reading system operates. However, studies been unable examine isolation contributory effect on because covarying linguistic or sociocultural factors. W...

Purpose: To investigate the performance of students at the end of Cycle I of Elementary School in phonological working memory and phonological awareness, as well as the possible relationship between these skills in this level of schooling. Methods: The research group was composed by 29 subjects of both genders, with mean age of 10 years, students from the 5 grade of Elementary School with no or...