Tucha Oliver, Trumpp Christian, Lange Klaus W
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
Brain Lang. 2004 Dec;91(3):267-73. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.03.003.
It is generally assumed that the lexical and phonological systems are involved in writing to dictation. In an experiment concerned with the writing of words and non-words to dictation, the handwriting of female students was registered using a digitising tablet. The data contradict the assumption that the phonological system represents an alexical process. Both words and non-words which were acoustically presented to the subjects were lexically parsed. The analysis of kinematic data revealed significant differences between the subjects' writing of words and non-words. The findings reveal gross disturbances of handwriting fluency during the writing of non-words. The findings of the experiment cannot be explained by the dual-process-theory.
