Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.
Raman, Ilhan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1438-1062 and Weekes, Brendan
(2006)
Deep dysgraphia in Turkish.
In:
Acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia across scripts.
Weekes, Brendan, ed.
IOS Press, Amsterdam.
ISBN 9781586035921.
[Book Section]
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.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Similar paper has also been published in 'Behavioural Neurology' no 16, vol 2. 2005. |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Psychology A. > School of Science and Technology > Psychology > Language, Learning and Cognition group |
| Item ID: | 7486 |
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| Depositing User: | Ilhan Raman |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2011 10:19 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2016 14:22 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/7486 |
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