Compounding in Aphasia: A Cross-Linguistic Review
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2007
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Abstract
Psycholinguistic data from patients with aphasia, a family of language disorders
caused by brain damage, may help determine how compound words are represented
in the lexicon. The errors produced by such patients may reflect whole-word storage
or rule-based composition of compounds. Experimental investigations of
compounding may also shed light on the deficits caused by aphasia. The noun-verb
double dissociation observed in certain subtypes of aphasia may apply to the noun
and verb components of compound words at the sublexical level as well. Studies of
aphasic speakers of English, German, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, and Chinese are
reviewed to assess whether processing of compound words differs among speakers of
languages that differ in terms of morphological structure and orthography. There is
evidence from all six languages for both componential and whole-word storage of
compounds, suggesting dual representation of such words in the lexicon. While the
possibility of a sublexical double dissociation in aphasia is supported, data from more
languages is needed to confirm that the phenomenon is present in languages with
different types of compounds. A critique of the experimental methods currently used
to study compounding in aphasia is provided, and directions for further research are
discussed.