Phonology and neuropsychology of the English past tense. Tyler, L. K, Randall, B., & Marslen-Wilson, W. D Neuropsychologia, 40(8):1154-66, 2002. abstract bibtex The double dissociation between the regular and irregular past tense in English has been explained in terms of dual and single mechanism accounts. In previous research we have argued that problems with the regular past tense in patients with left inferior frontal damage arise from morpho-phonological parsing difficulties [Trends in Cognitive Science 2 (1998) 428]. This claim has recently been challenged by a single mechanism connectionist account which argues that a general phonological processing deficit causes the poor performance on the regular past tense, with morphological factors playing no explicit role [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (1999) 7592]. We used a speeded judgement task with four patients who have documented difficulties with the regular past tense to contrast the claims made by these different approaches. We compared patients' ability to detect the difference between the past tense and stem of regular (hugged/hug) and irregular (taught/teach) past tense verbs, as well as matched "pseudo" pairs (trade/tray and port/peach). These real word conditions were accompanied by matched sets of non-words (e.g. nugged/nug). Patients' latencies to the regular past tense real word-pairs were consistently slower than in any other condition. To test for a general phonological processing deficit, we conducted several tests of phonological processing ability. The results show that the patients had a range of difficulties in phonological processing, from very mild to severe. This did not correlate with their performance on the speeded judgement task. We interpret this pattern of results as support for a specialised morpho-phonological processing mechanism which can be dissociated from other phonological processes and which is used directly in the processing of the regular past tense in a dual-mechanism system.
@Article{Tyler2002a,
author = {Lorraine K Tyler and Billi Randall and William D Marslen-Wilson},
journal = {Neuropsychologia},
title = {Phonology and neuropsychology of the {E}nglish past tense.},
year = {2002},
number = {8},
pages = {1154-66},
volume = {40},
abstract = {The double dissociation between the regular and irregular past tense
in English has been explained in terms of dual and single mechanism
accounts. In previous research we have argued that problems with
the regular past tense in patients with left inferior frontal damage
arise from morpho-phonological parsing difficulties [Trends in Cognitive
Science 2 (1998) 428]. This claim has recently been challenged by
a single mechanism connectionist account which argues that a general
phonological processing deficit causes the poor performance on the
regular past tense, with morphological factors playing no explicit
role [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (1999) 7592].
We used a speeded judgement task with four patients who have documented
difficulties with the regular past tense to contrast the claims made
by these different approaches. We compared patients' ability to detect
the difference between the past tense and stem of regular (hugged/hug)
and irregular (taught/teach) past tense verbs, as well as matched
"pseudo" pairs (trade/tray and port/peach). These real word conditions
were accompanied by matched sets of non-words (e.g. nugged/nug).
Patients' latencies to the regular past tense real word-pairs were
consistently slower than in any other condition. To test for a general
phonological processing deficit, we conducted several tests of phonological
processing ability. The results show that the patients had a range
of difficulties in phonological processing, from very mild to severe.
This did not correlate with their performance on the speeded judgement
task. We interpret this pattern of results as support for a specialised
morpho-phonological processing mechanism which can be dissociated
from other phonological processes and which is used directly in the
processing of the regular past tense in a dual-mechanism system.},
keywords = {Adult, Aged, Aphasia, Broca, Attention, Brain Damage, Chronic, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Cerebrovascular Accident, Cerebrovascular Disorders, Female, Frontal Lobe, Human, Male, Middle Aged, Nerve Net, Neural Networks (Computer), Neuropsychological Tests, Paired-Associate Learning, Phonetics, Semantics, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, 11931919},
}
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