Research Article
The Orthographic Ambiguity of the Arabic Graphic System: Evidence from a Case of Central Agraphia Affecting the Two Routes of Spelling
Table 3
Performance of CHS and control participants (mean and S.D.) on writing to dictation and written picture naming tasks.
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. Note: the database Aralex [22] was used to control word frequency. There exists no data for the degree of the imageability of Arabic words. Therefore, 19 participants (mean age: 37.7 years; age range: 21-52 years; education level: <12) were asked to rate the words for imageability (i.e., their ability to evoke mental imagery) on a 7-point Likert scale (; ). The words that participants scored 1-3 were considered low-imageability words, while those scored 5-7 were considered high-imageability words. The mean rating was 2.51 () for low-imageability words and 5.95 (SD =1.13) for high-imageability words, and the difference between the two types of word was significant (, ). |