Anomia and dyslexia in Chinese: A familiar story?

Abstract

We report a study investigating the factors that predict the naming performance of four Chinese-speaking anomic patients. The results showed that the rated familiarity of an item predicts naming performance for all of the patients, a finding that is consistent with data from studies of English-speaking anomic patients. These data are discussed in terms of current models of spoken word production that have been developed largely on the basis of data from English speakers. We also investigated the relationship between anemia and dyslexia for each patient by presenting 232 items to name from pictorial input and from print. The results showed that there was a highly significant correlation betwe..