Assessed Caramazza and Miceli's graphemic buffer organization theory by comparing the performance of two patients with graphemic buffer disorder. Noted effects of orthographic structure, deletions, insertions, and transposition. Found that neuropsychological evidence does not at present support the concept of the orthographic syllable. (MOK)

First graders listened to the pronunciation of single syllable nonsense words and were asked to spell the words. Results showed that, for nonsense words of the form consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant, in which the consonant following the vowel was a nasal or a liquid, children often omitted the second consonant in their spelling. (BC)