Preliminary evidence for two patterns of phonological similarity judgments of word-pairs by persons with Aphasia

Background Phonological similarity judgments of word-pairs have been shown to reflect the structure of a phonological network of word-forms, where words are connected to each other if they differ by one phoneme. Word-pairs that are closer together in the phonological network are more likely to be rated as sounding similar than word-pairs that are farther apart in the network. This behavioral pattern indicates sensitivity to the underlying structure of the phonological network.