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A group of 11 patients with damage to Broca's area demonstrated a dissociation between disrupted regular-verb and preserved irregular-verb priming. Disrupted regular-verb priming co-varied with disrupted phonological priming,
suggesting that word-onset ortho-phonological overlap between primes and targets was a critical factor. Examination of two types of irregular verbs (weak irregular and strong) suggested that the regular­irregular dissociation was continuous, as in single-system models, and not a categorical distinction, as in dual-system models. The regular­irregular dissociation did not extend to the N400 event-related potential component, which was preserved, suggesting that the deficit related to post-lexical events such as covert articulation, segmentation strategies, and/or cognitive control

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