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  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Understanding the cognitive and motor processes in written word production is crucial.
  • Typewriting involves a complex interplay between linguistic planning and motor execution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between central linguistic processing and peripheral motor processes during typewriting.
  • To determine how linguistic units are accessed and planned during the production of Finnish compound words.

Main Methods:

  • Participants typed two-constituent Finnish compounds in response to visual stimuli.
  • Writing onset time and inter-key intervals were measured to analyze pre-writing and during-writing processes.

Main Results:

  • Writing onset time was influenced by whole word frequency and first syllable length, suggesting pre-initiation retrieval of entire units.
  • Inter-key intervals indicated that linguistic planning extends into the motor execution phase, with planning occurring at syllable and morpheme boundaries.
  • Letter sequence frequency (bigram, trigram) affected inter-key intervals, with higher frequencies leading to shorter intervals, especially in the second constituent.

Conclusions:

  • Compound word retrieval occurs as a whole orthographic unit before typing initiation.
  • Linguistic planning is not fully completed before motor execution but cascades into it, particularly at structural boundaries.
  • Motor memory for frequently co-occurring letter sequences plays an increasingly significant role during the typing of compound words.