Research Article

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

Table 4

Type of errors produced by patients BL and MA in reading words and nonwords.

TasksPatient BLPatient MA
WordsNonwordsWordsNonwords

Stress errors 21 (72%)15 (68%) 31 (82%)48 (79%)
Segmental errors 6 (21%)6 (27%) 5 (13%)4 (6%)
Mixed errors 2 (7%)1 (5%) 2 (5%)9 (15%)