Linguistic structure modulates attention in reading: Evidence from negative concord in Italian.

We report the reading performance of an Italian speaker with egocentric Neglect Dyslexia on sentences with Negative Concord structures, which contain a linguistic cue to the presence of a preceding negative marker and compare it to sentences with no such cue. As predicted, the frequency of reading the whole sentence, including the initial negative marker non , was higher in Negative Concord structures than in sentences which also started with non , but crucially, lacked the medially positioned linguistic cue to the presence of non . These data support the claim that the presence of linguistic cues to sentence structure modulates attention during reading in Neglect Dyslexia.