Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.

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    Raman, I; Weekes, BS
    Date
    2005
    Source Title
    Behavioural Neurology: an international journal on the relationship between disordered human behavior and underlying biological mechanisms
    Publisher
    Hindawi Limited
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Weekes, Brendan
    Affiliation
    Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
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    Journal Article
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    Raman, I. & Weekes, B. S. (2005). Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.. Behav Neurol, 16 (2-3), pp.59-69. https://doi.org/10.1155/2005/568540.
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    Open Access
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/256272
    DOI
    10.1155/2005/568540
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478845
    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.

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