Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.
Book chapter
Raman, I. and Weekes, B. 2006. Deep dysgraphia in Turkish. in: Weekes, B. (ed.) Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia across scripts. Amsterdam IOS Press.
| Chapter title | Deep dysgraphia in Turkish. |
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| Authors | Raman, I. and Weekes, B. |
| Abstract | Deep dysgraphic patients make semantic errors when writing to dictation and they cannot write nonwords. Extant reports of deep dysgraphia come from languages with relatively opaque orthographies. Turkish is a transparent orthography because the bidirectional mappings between phonology and orthography are completely predictable. We report BRB, a biscriptal Turkish-English speaker who has acquired dysgraphia characterised by semantic errors as well as effects of grammatical class and imageability on writing in Turkish. Nonword spelling is abolished. A similar pattern of errors is observed in English. BRB is the first report of acquired dysgraphia in a truly transparent writing system. We argue that deep dysgraphia results from damage to the mappings that are common to both languages between word meanings and orthographic representations. |
| Research Group | Language, Learning and Cognition group |
| Book title | Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia across scripts. |
| Editors | Weekes, B. |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Place of publication | Amsterdam |
| ISBN | |
| Hardcover | 9781586035921 |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 07 Apr 2011 |
| Output status | Published |
| Additional information | Similar paper has also been published in 'Behavioural Neurology' no 16, vol 2. 2005. |
| Language | English |
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