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Perceptual-Motor Complexity of Printed and Cursive Letters.

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Meulenbroek, Ruud G. J.; Van Galen, Gerard P. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990

Seventy-five Dutch elementary school students wrote letters of a cursive alphabet after presentation of printed and cursive letters. Analysis revealed that spatial ambiguity, allographic variability, contextual ambiguity, and letter frequency are determinants of the time needed by children for perceiving printed and producing corresponding cursive…

Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Cursive Writing, Elementary Education