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Picture naming deficits in developmental dyslexia in German
Author(s) -
Goswami Usha,
Schneider Wolfgang,
Scheurich Barbara
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
developmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.801
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1467-7687
pISSN - 1363-755X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7687.00054
Subject(s) - dyslexia , psychology , reading (process) , biological theories of dyslexia , german , phonology , orthography , cognitive psychology , developmental dyslexia , linguistics , set (abstract data type) , computer science , philosophy , programming language
Recent research with English developmental dyslexics comparing the picture naming performance of these children to the picture naming performance of non‐dyslexic (‘garden variety’) poor readers, reading age matched controls and chronological age matched controls has suggested that a selective difficulty in retrieving the phonological codes of known names on demand underlies the picture naming deficit found in developmental dyslexia (Swan & Goswami, Picture naming deficits in developmental dyslexia: the phonological representations hypothesis, Brain and Language , 56 (1997), 334–353). If the underlying causal factors in dyslexia are independent of the orthography that the child is learning to read, then a difficulty in retrieving the phonological codes of known names on demand should also be found in developmental dyslexics who are learning to read other languages. We therefore set out to replicate Swan and Goswami’s study with a group of German developmental dyslexics. We were interested to see whether a phonological deficit is characteristic of dyslexia in all orthographies, even those, such as German, in which high orthographic transparency means that dyslexic children read with considerable accuracy.