The multiple-lemma representation of Italian compound nouns: A single case study of deep dyslexia

► Analysis of the reading performance of a deep dyslexic patient. ► Grammatical class effects in retrieving the constituents of VN compounds. ► Noun constituents are easier to retrieve when compounds are presented in isolation. ► The grammatical class effect disappears when compounds are embedded in sentences. ► Constituents' role in compound processing is modulated by contextual information.