Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.

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Raman, I; Weekes, BSDate
2005Source Title
Behavioural Neurology: an international journal on the relationship between disordered human behavior and underlying biological mechanismsPublisher
Hindawi LimitedUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Weekes, BrendanAffiliation
Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesMetadata
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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.Access Status
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478845Abstract
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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