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| ArticleTitle | Four cases of phonological anomia |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Hideko Mizuta1), Yasuhiro Fujimoto2), Minoru Matsuda3) |
| Affiliation |
1) Department of Rehabilitation, Itami Municipal Hospital 2) Moriguchi Kei-ninkai Hospital 3) Department of Neurology, Shiga Prefectural Medical Center |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 21 (3), 207-214, 2005 |
| Received | May 21, 2004 |
| Accepted | Nov 15, 2004 |
| Abstract | We report the naming performance of four fluent aphasics. They showed good comprehension, but their confrontation naming was severely impaired. They produced numerous phonological errors but virtually no semantic errors or circumlocutions. They would often generate partial phonological information about the target word and they usually tried to correct the error spontaneously. Nevertheless they had no difficulties in repeating words they could not name. As the underlying deficit of their anomia, we suspected that they could select appropriate lexical item from lexicon, but that they had difficulties in retrieving complete phonological forms of the item. We discussed the concept of phonological anomia originally proposed by Ellis from symptomatological point of view and current models of lexical access. We, therefore, wish to claim that our patients could be called phonological anomics in the essential meaning of the word. |
| Keywords | anomia, phonemic paraphasia, semantic paraphasia, conduction ahasia, lemma |
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