Acquired dyslexia in a Turkish-English speaker.

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Raman, I. and Weekes, B. 2005. Acquired dyslexia in a Turkish-English speaker. Annals of Dyslexia. 55 (1), pp. 79-104.
TypeArticle
TitleAcquired dyslexia in a Turkish-English speaker.
AuthorsRaman, I. and Weekes, B.
Abstract

The Turkish script is characterised by completely transparent bidirectional mappings between orthography and phonology. To date, there has been no reported evidence of acquired dyslexia in Turkish speakers leading to the naïve view that reading and writing problems in Turkish are probably rare. We examined the extent to which phonological impairment and orthographic transparency influence reading disorders in a native Turkish speaker. BRB is a bilingual Turkish-English speaker with deep dysphasia accompanied by acquired dyslexia in both languages. The main findings are an effect of imageability on reading in Turkish coincident with surface dyslexia in English and preserved nonword reading. BRB's acquired dyslexia suggests that damage to phonological representations might have a consequence for learning to read in Turkish. We argue that BRB's acquired dyslexia has a common locus in chronic underactivation of phonological representations in Turkish and English. Despite a common locus, reading problems manifest themselves differently according to properties of the script and the type of task.

Research GroupLanguage, Learning and Cognition group
PublisherSpringer
JournalAnnals of Dyslexia
ISSN0736-9387
Publication dates
Print2005
Publication process dates
Deposited06 Apr 2011
Output statusPublished
LanguageEnglish
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