Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hess, Stefan
• Mousikou, Petroula
• Schroeder, Sascha

Titel

Morphological processing in developmental handwriting production: evidence from kinematics

Ist Teil von

• Reading & writing, 2022-04, Vol.35 (4), p.899-917

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

ERIC

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this study, we investigated effects of morphological processing on handwriting production in beginning writers of German. Children from Grades 3 and 4 were asked to copy words from a computer screen onto a pen tablet, while we recorded their handwriting with high spatiotemporal resolution. Words involved a syllable-congruent visual disruption (e.g., “Gol fer ”), a morpheme-congruent visual disruption (e.g., “Golf er ”), or had no disruption (e.g., “Golfer”). We analyzed productions in terms of Writing Onset Duration and Letter Duration at the onset of the second syllable (“f” in “Gol.fer”) and the onset of the suffix (“e” in “Golf_er”). Results showed that durations were longer at word-writing onset only for words with a morpheme-congruent visual disruption. Also, letter durations were longer at the onset of the second syllable (i.e., “-fer”) and shorter at the onset of the suffix (i.e., “-er”) only for words with a syllable-congruent visual disruption. We interpret these findings within extant theories of handwriting production and offer an explanation for the observed effects before and during trajectory formation.