Syllabic processing in handwritten word production in German children and adults

Hess, Stefan; Mousikou, Petroula; Verrel, Julius; Schroeder, Sascha

doi:10.1016/j.humov.2018.07.003

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“…Kandel et al (2006) found that the inter-letter duration was longer when a bigram (e.g., ac) corresponds to a syllabic boundary (e.g., tra.ceur) 1 than when this is not the case (e.g., trac.tus). Similar results have been reported with different types of tasks (dictation, copying, picture naming), in both upper and lower-case handwriting, in typewriting and in several alphabetic languages (Alvarez et al, 2009;Bogearts et al, 1996;Hess et al, 2019;Kandel, et al, 2006Kandel, et al, , 2011Kreiner et al, 2008;Sausset et al, 2012Sausset et al, , 2013Service & Turpeinen, 2001;Weingerten et al, 2004;Zesiger et al, 1994). A conception based on parallel processing at the central and peripheral levels (e.g., Kandel et al, 2011;Olive, 2014;Roux et al, 2013) makes it possible to account for syllabic boundary effects.…”

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“…From a theoretical point of view, this absence of influence constitutes an argument against the hypothesis that syllables are accessed in O-LTM during the encoding of the orthographic wordform. As discussed in the Introduction, this hypothesis of an orthographic mental syllabary is attractive because it accounts for all the results reported in the literature (e.g., Caramazza & Miceli, 1990;Hess et al, 2019;Kandel et al, 2006;Lambert et al, 2008;Sausset et al, 2012). The challenge arising from our results is to account for this literature on syllables while finding an alternative to the conception proposed by Kandel et al (2011).…”

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“…The syllable is one potential candidate. A number of studies concur that abstract orthographic representations stored in O-WM have a multidimensional organisation, with one of these dimensions corresponding to the syllabic structure (e.g., Hess et al, 2019;Kandel et al, 2011;Lambert et al, 2008;Sausset et al, 2012). Nevertheless, these studies do not allow us to come to any direct decision regarding the hypothesis that orthographic syllables are stored in O-LTM (i.e.…”

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Adult studies in the fields of neurolinguistic and mental chronometry suggest that the syllable plays a functional role in handwritten word production. These studies support the hypothesis of a syllabified orthographic representation stored in the graphemic buffer. However, there remains the question of the cognitive mechanisms involved in this encoding of orthographic representations and, in particular, that of the processes related to the syllable. In the study reported here, we tested the hypothesis of an orthographic mental syllabary in long-term orthographic memory by exploring the impact of syllable frequency on handwritten latencies.Thirty participants handwrote the labels of one hundred and fifty images. Bayesian analyses indicated that the data support an absence of effect of syllable frequency. We propose an alternative hypothesis to the syllabary to account for the results in the literature. This respects the constraint of an absence of effect of syllable frequency in handwritten word production.

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“…Instead, it has been argued that higher level cognitive processes are not completed before motor production, but cascade all the way down to influence motor execution (e.g., Kandel & Perret, 2015; Roux et al, 2013). Indeed, changes in movement duration during handwriting often reflect orthographic and phonological influences on handwriting production (e.g., Afonso et al, 2015; Hess et al, 2019).…”

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“…The handwriting production of such patterns poses a challenge for beginning writers. For example, syllable and morpheme boundaries (e.g., Hess et al, 2019; Kandel & Valdois, 2006; Quémart & Lambert, 2019), orthographic regularity (e.g., Kandel & Perret, 2015; Kandel & Valdois, 2005), as well as graphemic complexity (e.g., Kandel et al, 2006) are shown to affect movement duration during handwriting. Similarly, beginning writers of English (Cassar & Treiman, 1997) and French (Pacton et al, 2001; Pacton et al, 2013) have difficulties producing words containing double letters (e.g., Treiman & Kessler, 2014), even though they are taught that certain letters are doubled within specific word positions.…”

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Double-letter processing in developmental and skilled handwriting production: Evidence from kinematics

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In this study, we investigated the effects of double-letter processing on handwriting production in beginning and skilled writers of German. One hundred and thirty-seven children from Grades 2 and 3 and 31 adult participants were asked to copy words with double consonants (e.g., “Kanne”) and matched words without double consonants (e.g., “Kante”) from a computer screen onto a pen tablet, while their handwriting was recorded with high spatio-temporal resolution. Handwriting productions were analysed in terms of Reading Duration, Writing Onset Duration, and Letter Duration at the letter positions preceding or forming the onset of the corresponding consonant clusters. Our results showed that second graders take less time to initiate writing words with double consonants than words without double consonants, while both second and third graders take less time to read words with double consonants than words without double consonants. Critically, although second and third graders write down a letter faster when it corresponds to the first letter of a double-letter unit than a consonant cluster, it is the other way around for adults. We interpret these findings within extant theories of handwriting production and offer an explanation for the different nature of the effects observed in beginning and skilled writers.

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Morphological processing in developmental handwriting production: evidence from kinematics

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In this study, we investigated effects of morphological processing on handwriting production in beginning writers of German. Children from Grades 3 and 4 were asked to copy words from a computer screen onto a pen tablet, while we recorded their handwriting with high spatiotemporal resolution. Words involved a syllable-congruent visual disruption (e.g., “Golfer”), a morpheme-congruent visual disruption (e.g., “Golfer”), or had no disruption (e.g., “Golfer”). We analyzed productions in terms of Writing Onset Duration and Letter Duration at the onset of the second syllable (“f” in “Gol.fer”) and the onset of the suffix (“e” in “Golf_er”). Results showed that durations were longer at word-writing onset only for words with a morpheme-congruent visual disruption. Also, letter durations were longer at the onset of the second syllable (i.e., “-fer”) and shorter at the onset of the suffix (i.e., “-er”) only for words with a syllable-congruent visual disruption. We interpret these findings within extant theories of handwriting production and offer an explanation for the observed effects before and during trajectory formation.

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Syllabic processing in handwritten word production in German children and adults

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Application of a Bayesian approach for exploring the impact of syllable frequency in handwritten picture naming

Application of a Bayesian approach for exploring the impact of syllable frequency in handwritten picture naming

Double-letter processing in developmental and skilled handwriting production: Evidence from kinematics

Morphological processing in developmental handwriting production: evidence from kinematics

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