Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation

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...

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Main Authors: HyangHee Kim, Duk L. Na, Eun Sook Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2007-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/751407
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description 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 (한글) 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.
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spelling doaj-art-9a6e63cfb6be4e94b893084efdda14462025-08-20T03:36:52ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85842007-01-01182919710.1155/2007/751407Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive RepresentationHyangHee Kim0Duk L. Na1Eun Sook Park2Graduate Program in Speech and Language Pathology, Yonsei University, Seoul, KoreaDepartment of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, KoreaDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, KoreaDysgraphia 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 (한글) 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/751407
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title Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation
title_full Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation
title_fullStr Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation
title_full_unstemmed Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation
title_short Intransigent Vowel-Consonant Position in Korean Dysgraphia: Evidence of Spatial-Constructive Representation
title_sort intransigent vowel consonant position in korean dysgraphia evidence of spatial constructive representation
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/751407
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