Phonological processing of nonwords by a deep dyslexic patient: A rowse is implicitly a rose

Recent work has shown that implicit phonological knowledge plays a role in the word recognition performance of deep dyslexics [H ildebrandt, N. and S okol, S.M. Reading and Writing, 5, 43–68, 1993; K atz, R.B. and L anzoni, S.M. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 45, 575–608, 1992]. The results of the current study extend this examination to include the investigation of implicit knowledge of nonword phonology. The data from two lexical decision tasks indicate that nonword phonology is available for processing by a deep dyslexic patient in that she produced a significant pseudohomophone effect as well as semantic priming with pseudohomophone primes in lexical decision.