M. Mccloskey et al., THE STRUCTURE OF GRAPHEMIC REPRESENTATIONS IN SPELLING - EVIDENCE FROM A CASE OF ACQUIRED DYSGRAPHIA, Cognitive neuropsychology, 11(3), 1994, pp. 341-392
A single-case study of an acquired dysgraphic patient is presented. On
the basis of the patient's pattern of spelling errors, and especially
his errors on words with geminate letters (e.g. ''cross'' spelled cro
os), it is argued that stored spelling representations are not simple
linear sequences of letter tokens (e.g. C-R-O-S-S). Rather, it is prop
osed that the graphemic representations processed by the cognitive spe
lling mechanisms are multidimensional structures that encode separatel
y letter position, letter identity, letter doubling, and consonant/vow
el status.