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However, for both patients, naming of the trained item was most frequently elicited by providing an initial phoneme cue. In each case, the phonemic cue might have provided additional activation of the target phonological representation (to the exclusion of other, semantically related, phonological representations) which could have made the phonological representation available for further processing whether the impaired activation of the representation was due to damage at the semantic level or within the lexicon itself (see Hillis & Caramazza, 1992a, for discussion).
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