word-deaf

This doesn't usually come to full consciousness unless (for prose) the writing is particularly good, (for poetry) the writing is good but not very, very good -- or the writing is bad in a way which suggests the writer is word-deaf.

Another Day in the Ketchup Mine 2005

The minor hemisphere in addition to being unable to talk, and unable to write, and word-deaf and word-blind, was inferred by extrapolation to be typically lacking also in the higher cognitive faculties associated with language and symbolic processing.

Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

Again, such cases seem to tell us that word comprehension is confined to the left hemisphere and that the spared right hemisphere must be word-deaf, as well as word-blind.

Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

Those who deny the necessity, or decry the utility, of such an education, are generally deficient in a sense of what makes good literature -- they are 'word-deaf,' as others are colour-blind.

Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

'60s converged to support the picture of a leading, more highly evolved and intellectual left hemisphere and a relatively retarded right hemisphere that by contrast, in the typical righthander brain, is not only mute and agraphic but also dyslexic, word-deaf and apraxic, and lacking generally in higher cognitive function.

Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

(8, 9, 10) on these patients seemed to show from the start that the disconnected right hemisphere was by no means word-deaf as anticipated, nor either word-blind.

Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981