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| Title: |
Intransigent vowel-consonant position in Korean dysgraphia: Evidence of spatial-constructive representation |
| Author: |
Kim, HyangHee Na, Duk L. Park, Eun Sook |
| Appeared in: |
Behavioural neurology |
| Paging: | Volume 18 (2007) nr. 2 pages 91-97 |
| Year: |
2007-05-30 |
| Contents: |
Dysgraphia due to a focal brain lesion can be characterized by substitution, transposition, deletion and/or addition errors of graphemes or strokes. However, those linguistic errors can be language-specific because the writing system of a given language may influence error patterns. We investigated a Korean stroke patient, a 57-year-old English teacher with dysgraphia both in Korean Han-geul {(\psfig{figure=ben15901.eps,width=6mm})} and in English alphabet writings. The results of an experimental testing revealed transposition errors between a consonant and a vowel only in English but not in Korean writings. This austerity of vowel-consonant position may be attributed to a unique Korean writing system of a spatially well-formed syllabic configuration or block with consonant(s) and a vowel. In light of a neuropsychological model of writing, which depicts a multi-level spelling and writing process, we suggest a spatial-constructional component of internal orthographic representations in Korean writing. This Korean graphemic configuration feature may be resistant to a focal, left cerebral damage, and thus, we also discuss our results in terms of cerebral lateralization of the writing processes. |
| Publisher: |
IOS Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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