Processing of compound nouns: Evidence from Persian-speaking transcortical aphasics

This study aimed to examine the lexical performance of 1 motor and 1 sensory transcortical patients through confrontation naming, repetition and spoken picture-matching tasks to clarify how the representation of root and synthetic compound nouns takes place in mental lexicon. The analysis of the data indicated that the transcortical motor (TM) aphasic had good comprehension ability, whereas the transcortical sensory (TS) one was poor in language comprehension. The TS aphasic's performance on confrontation naming was worse than the MT patient, but she repeated words better than the other one. Based on the data, it is concluded that decomposition route is employed in repetition task, while the dual route (decomposition and holistic) is used in naming task, and the comprehension processing takes place through a distributed model.