For a Psycholinguistic Model of Handwriting Production: Testing the Syllable-Bigram Controversy

Autor/inn/en	Kandel, Sonia; Peereman, Ronald; Grosjacques, Geraldine; Fayol, Michel
Titel	For a Psycholinguistic Model of Handwriting Production: Testing the Syllable-Bigram Controversy
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37 (2011) 4, S.1310-1322 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0023094
Schlagwörter	Children; Adults; Psycholinguistics; Handwriting; Syllables; Alphabets; French; Cognitive Processes; Grade 4; Grade 3; Computational Linguistics; Mathematical Linguistics; Foreign Countries; Language Processing; Graphemes; Word Frequency; Models; Time + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Psycholinguistik; Handschrift; Silbe; Buchstabenschrift; Französisch; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Mathematische Linguistik; Mathematische Sprache; Ausland; Sprachverarbeitung; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Analogiemodell; Zeit
Abstract	This study examined the theoretical controversy on the impact of syllables and bigrams in handwriting production. French children and adults wrote words on a digitizer so that we could collect data on the local, online processing of handwriting production. The words differed in the position of the lowest frequency bigram. In one condition, it coincided with the word's syllable boundary. In the other condition, it was located before the syllable boundary. The results yielded higher movement durations at the position where the low-frequency bigram coincided with the syllable boundary compared to where the low-frequency bigram appeared before the syllable boundary. Syllable-oriented strategies failed with the presence of a very low-frequency bigram within the initial syllable. Further analysis showed that children in grades 3 and 4 privileged syllable-oriented programming strategies. The production times of children in grade 4 were also affected by syllable frequency and, to a lesser extent, bigram frequency. The adults writing durations were modulated by bigram frequency. Therefore, both bigrams and syllables regulate handwriting production although the influence of bigrams was stronger in adults than children. In the light of these results, we propose a psycholinguistic model of handwriting production. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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