Authors:

Patterson, K.

Reference:

Year of publication:

1986

CBU number:

1871

Abstract:

The paper presents a case report of an aphasic patient who, at 3-4 months after his cerebo-vascular accident, displayed one rather remarkable language skill. Although G.E. could not speak, repeat, read aloud, name objects, write the names of objects or write spontaneously, he could write words to dictation with an impressively high degree of success. It seems that for G.E., unlike previously described patients with writing substantially more peserved than speech, proceeding from recognition of a spoken word to its orthography was not primarily based upon semantic representation. It is suggested that G.E. may provide some of the first convincing evidence for a ‘third’ routine in spelling.