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T1 Phonemic errors with words but semantic errors with numbers: is number production special?
A1 Guandalini, Martina
A1 Rodríguez-Santos, José Miguel
A1 García-Orza, Javier
K1 Afasia - Congresos
AB Paradoxically, brain-damaged people with impairmentsin the phonological output buffer produce phonemicparaphasias with content words (e.g., bitar-butter) butsemantic paraphasias with number words (e.g., twentyfive-thirty eight). This is known as the Stimulus TypeEffect on Phonological and Semantic errors (STEPS).Explanations for this phenomenon consider that preassembledphonological representations exist fornumbers but not for content words in the phonologicaloutput buffer. Here we explore two alternativehypotheses based on the existence of twomethodological confounds: numbers are alwayspresented in homogeneous blocks and words inheterogeneous blocks; number words are usually wordsequences that are compared to single content-words.Two conduction aphasics took part in the study.Experiment 1 did not confirm the role of lists in causingthe STEPS. Experiment 2 found more semanticparaphasias (compared to phonemic paraphasias) both inthe repetition of multidigits (e.g., 673) and, moreimportantly, in the repetition of color word sequences(e.g., red-blue-green). The STEPS arises as consequenceof differences in resource demands. Number words havenot a special status in the phonological output buffer.
YR 2018
FD 2018-07-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16275
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/16275
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 4 mar 2026