OBJECTIVE Individuals with dyslexia do not only show deficits reading but are also less accurate in naming pictures. This has mainly been linked to prevalent phonological deficits. However, lexical retrieval of picture names could be due increased lexical-semantic competition. The present study tested whether adults (AwDs) more affected by a competitive context than control participants. METHOD...

This paper confirms and exploits the observation that early overt self-interruptions and repairs of phonological speech errors very likely are reactions to inner speech, not to overt speech. In an experiment eliciting word–word and nonword–nonword phonological spoonerisms it is found that self-interruptions and repairs come in two classes, one class of reactions to inner speech, another with re...

This paper confirms and exploits the observation that early overt self-interruptions and repairs of phonological speech errors very likely are reactions to inner speech, not to overt speech. In an experiment eliciting word–word and nonword–nonword phonological spoonerisms it is found that self-interruptions and repairs come in two classes, one class of reactions to inner speech, another with re...

Within the domain of inflectional morpho-syntax, differential processing of regular and irregular forms has been found in healthy speakers and in aphasia. One view assumes that irregular forms are retrieved as full entities, while regular forms are compiled on-line. An alternative view holds that a single mechanism oversees regular and irregular forms. Arabic offers an opportunity to study this...

Inner speech is typically characterized as either the activation of abstract linguistic representations or a detailed articulatory simulation that lacks only the production of sound. We present a study of the speech errors that occur during the inner recitation of tongue-twister-like phrases. Two forms of inner speech were tested: inner speech without articulatory movements and articulated (mou...

We present a novel approach to incremental recovery from lexical and syntactic errors in an interactive software development environment. Unlike existing techniques, we utilize the history of changes to the program to discover the natural correlation between user modifications and errors detected during incremental lexical and syntactic analysis. Our technique is non-correcting—the analysis ref...

This study is set in a broad context of development of courses and computational tools to aid Brazilian graduate students in writing scientific papers in English. The main focus is on experimental research papers from the disciplines of physics, pharmaceutical and computer sciences. One of our primary objectives is to give students feedback and raise their awareness of the most typical lexical ...