Stress Assignment Errors in Surface Dyslexia: Evidence from Two Italian Patients with a Selective Deficit of the Orthographic Input Lexicon

Table 3

Correct responses (%) in reading aloud stimuli with different stress position (Lists 1 and 2 reported in the appendix).

Stimuli	Patient BL^∗∗	Patient MA
Words
Penultimate syllable	83/90 (92%)	82/90 (91%)
Antepenultimate syllable	68/90 (76%)	60/90 (67%)
Nonwords
Penultimate syllable^∗	16/25 (64%)	35/40 (78%)
Antepenultimate syllable^∗	2/15 (13%)	4/60 (7%)

 ^∗Responses consistent with the predicted stress position (for normal readers see [27, 28]). ^∗∗For incidental reasons, BL was given only 40 nonwords.