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Deep dyslexia in croatian language

Oral reading in patients with Broca`s aphasia caused by cerebrovascular accident and with traumatic brain injury was tested in order to state differences in accuracy in reading on real and pseudowords, on concrete and abstract nouns, on different types of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions and adverbs), on two-syllable and three-syllable real words, on real words with high and low-frequency and on two- and three-syllable pseudowords. Purpose of this study was to determine if patients with Broca`s aphasia have deep alexia and whether patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have any specific type of alexia. The survey comprised 8 patients, aged between 20 and 56. Croatian language is maternal language for all participants. They were all included in speech and language therapy lasting from 26 days up to 7 months. In this research, Broca`s subjects do not display part-of-speech effect, concreteness effect, length effect nor semantic paralexias, that is states as main features of deep alexia. Subjects with traumatic brain injury display advantage towards better reading of real words and of two-syllable pseudowords, which is not enough to classify them as having certain type of alexia.

Broca`s aphasia; traumatic brain injury; oral reading; alexia

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