For a Psycholinguistic Model of Handwriting Production: Testing the Syllable-Bigram Controversy

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1310-1322

  Kandel, Sonia ^a,b,c   Peereman, Ronald ^a   Grosjacques, Géraldine ^a   Fayol, Michel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c GIPSA LAB   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Adults; Bigram frequency; Children; Handwriting; Syllable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79961163466     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023094     Document Type: Article

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