title: Processing complex graphemes in handwriting production.
abstract: Recent studies on handwriting production and neuropsychological data have suggested that orthographic representations are multilevel structures that encode information on letter identity and order, but also on intermediate-grained processing units such as syllables and morphemes. This study on handwriting production examined whether orthographic representations also include a graphemic-processing level. French adults wrote words containing an embedded one-, two-, or three-letter grapheme (e.g., a in clavier, ai in prairie, ain in plainte) on a digitizer. The results for letter duration revealed that the timing of movement processing depends on grapheme length (e.g., the duration of a for one-letter graphemes was shorter than that for two-letter graphemes, which, in turn, was shorter than that for three-letter graphemes). Two- and three-letter graphemes start to be processed before we start to write them. The results therefore revealed that orthographic representations also encode information on grapheme complexity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, CNRS UMR 5105, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France. sonia.kandel@upmf-grenoble.fr
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kandel
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Spinelli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D055815:Young Adult