Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Writing Words: a Brief Introduction / Cyril Perret and Thierry Olive -- Theoretical and Empirical Section -- A Role of Phonology in Orthographic Production? A Historical Perspective and Some Recent New Evidence / Markus F. Damian -- Implicit Statistical Learning of Graphotactic Knowledge and Lexical Orthographic Acquisition / Sébastien Pacton , Michel Fayol , Marion Nys and Ronald Peereman -- BAST: a Theory of Bilingual Spelling in Alphabetic Systems / Marie-Josèphe Tainturier -- The Role of Handwriting in Reading: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence of Motor Involvement in Letter Recognition / Yannick Wamain -- Struggling with Writing: an Examination of Writing Difficulties in Specific Language Impairment, Developmental Dyslexia and Developmental Coordination Disorder / Olivia Afonso , Vincent Connelly and Anna L. Barnett -- Methodological Section -- Task Differences and Individual Differences in Skilled Spelling / Patrick Bonin and Alain Méot -- Measuring Writing Durations in Handwriting Research: What Do They Tell Us about the Spelling Process? / Olivia Afonso and Carlos J. Álvarez -- Analyzing Variability in Upper-Case Letter Production in Adults / Laurence Séraphin-Thibon , Silvain Gerber and Sonia Kandel -- EEG Methods of Exploring Written Word Production / Cyril Perret and Qingqing Qu -- Conclusion -- Research on Written Word Production and Writing Research / Michel Fayol -- Writing Research in the 21st Century / Brenda Rapp.

Spelling and Writing Words: Theoretical and Methodological Advances provides a set of contributions about how individuals write words. Understanding word production is of major importance as it allows understanding how words -the basic elements of written language- are stored in the writers’ brain and how do writers select the spelling of a word. andlt; The theoretical chapters address hot topics in the field such as the role of phonology in writing, bilingualism, language disorders, orthographic acquisition, and the influence of handwriting on reading. The methodological chapters address individual differences, how to measure handwriting performance in different handwriting styles, and neuroscientific approaches. The concluding chapters explore the future of written word production research.