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@ARTICLE{Billette:151587,
author = {Billette, Ornella V. and Preiß, Daniel and Nestor, Peter
J.},
title = {{T}he concept of regularization: {R}esolving the problem of
surface dyslexia in semantic variant primary progressive
aphasia across different languages.},
journal = {Neuropsychology},
volume = {34},
number = {3},
issn = {1931-1559},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {Assoc.},
reportid = {DZNE-2020-01171},
pages = {298-307},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Surface dyslexia, a diagnostic feature of the semantic
variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), is difficult
to observe in many languages. It can be conceptualized as
one manifestation of a more general “regularization”
effect—that is, with semantic impairment, patients fail to
recognize exceptions and revert to default rules. Objective:
We predicted that, analogous to surface dyslexia in English,
German patients with svPPA would regularize irregular verbs,
especially those of lower frequency and in the less
frequently used preterite tense. Method: Regularization was
investigated in German through past-tense verb inflectional
morphology in N = 10 svPPA, N = 5 PPA related to Alzheimer
pathology (Aß+PPA), N = 5 patients with nonfluent variant
PPA (nfvPPA), N = 12 typical (amnestic presentation)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and N = 32 healthy controls. The
task involved perfect- and preterite-tense inflection of
regular and irregular verbs of high and low frequency.
Results: Errors in svPPA particularly involved
regularization (e.g., I swim → I swimmed, I have swimmed),
whereas Aß+PPA made a wide range of other errors (e.g.,
verb agreement or tense errors). Regularization was rare in
AD and controls, whereas the expected frequency effects (low
worse than high) were found in svPPA. nfvPPA had profound
difficulties in inflecting verbs in general. Conclusion: The
study illustrates how tests tailored to a specific language
can reveal the regularization effect of svPPA. For more
universal diagnostic recommendations, future revisions for
svPPA should consider substituting the criterion of surface
dyslexia for that of a general criterion of regularization
of language rules, the former being an example of the
latter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights
reserved).},
keywords = {Aged / Aged, 80 and over / Alzheimer Disease: pathology /
Alzheimer Disease: psychology / Aphasia, Primary
Progressive: psychology / Aphasia, Primary Progressive:
therapy / Dyslexia: psychology / Dyslexia: therapy / Female
/ Humans / Language / Male / Middle Aged / Psychomotor
Performance / Semantics},
cin = {Clinical Study Center Ulm / AG Nestor},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)5000077 / I:(DE-2719)1310001},
pnm = {344 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF3-344)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-344},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:31868373},
doi = {10.1037/neu0000611},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/151587},
}