Graphemic cohesion effect in reading and writing complex graphemes

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 770-791

  Spinelli, Elsa ^a,b,e   Kandel, Sonia ^a,b,d   Guerassimovitch, Helena ^a   Ferrand, Ludovic ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d GIPSA LAB   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphemes; Handwriting; Letter detection task; Parsing

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAPHEME; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOUND; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 84862279136     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.586534     Document Type: Article

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