摘要：Neglect Dyslexia is associated with right hemispheric damage and unilateral spatial neglect that typicallyinvolves the left side of the letter string. When reading compounds (e.g. truck-driver) a common finding is thatpatients seem to respect the boundaries between the first and the second component (Behrmann et ah, 1990).Moreover, Semenza et al (2011) showed that the head attracts selective attention highlighting its importance forprocessing. The present study exploits this finding in order to assess the influence of ‘headedness’ in Greekcoordinative compounds. A compound’s ‘head’ is the component that determines the syntactic and semanticproperties of the whole compound. While Greek is a right-headed language when it comes to subordinativecompounds ( domatosalata ‘tomato-salad’), there is a group of Greek compounds, called coordinative, that do notdemonstrate clear headedness (maxairopirouna ‘knives-forks’ ‘cutlery’) and they are considered either headless ordouble-headed (Ralli, 2005). Especially coordinative adjectival compounds (mavroaspros ‘black-white’) alsodemonstrate free word order. If coordinative compounds are indeed headless or double-headed, patients with neglectdyslexia will make fewer mistakes in reading their left constituents compared to subordinative compounds, whichhave a clear head.
