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A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of - Queen Margaret University

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SPOKEN WORD PICTURE WRITTEN WORD<br />

Auditory<br />

Phonological<br />

Analyses<br />

Abstract<br />

Letter<br />

Identification<br />

Visual/ Object<br />

Recognition<br />

Phonological<br />

Input<br />

Lexicon<br />

Orthographic<br />

Input<br />

Lexicon<br />

Acoustic to<br />

Phonological<br />

conversion<br />

Semantic<br />

System<br />

Letter to<br />

Phonological<br />

conversion<br />

Phonological<br />

Output<br />

Lexicon<br />

Orthographic<br />

Output<br />

Lexicon<br />

Copy<br />

Letters<br />

Phonological<br />

Output<br />

Buffer<br />

Phonological to<br />

Letter Conversion<br />

Graphemic<br />

Output<br />

Buffer<br />

Speech<br />

Figure 5iv<br />

Representation <strong>of</strong> C2’s s<strong>in</strong>gle word<br />

process<strong>in</strong>g abilities<br />

Writ<strong>in</strong>g<br />

C2’s data (see Table 5.12 and Figure 5iv above) <strong>in</strong>dicated that he had a number<br />

<strong>of</strong> language difficulties at s<strong>in</strong>gle word level. C2’s ability to categorise pictures<br />

and words suggested that he could adequately access his semantic system. He<br />

could also write real words correctly. However, C2 had some difficulty<br />

differentiat<strong>in</strong>g real from non-words (suggest<strong>in</strong>g impairment to PIL and OIL).<br />

Significantly, he demonstrated severe impairment with all spoken output, i.e.<br />

repetition, read<strong>in</strong>g aloud, spoken nam<strong>in</strong>g and also had difficulties spell<strong>in</strong>g nonwords<br />

(suggest<strong>in</strong>g impairment to PIL, APC, POL, POB and OIL, LPC, PLC and<br />

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