Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.

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Raman, I. and Weekes, B. 2006. Deep dysgraphia in Turkish. in: Weekes, B. (ed.) Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia across scripts. Amsterdam IOS Press.

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Chapter title	Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.
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
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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