ABSTRACT

In order to be fundamentally complete, a psychological theory of written language production must consider a wealth of subprocesses. These sub-processes include the following:

The acquisition of knowledge

The situation-dependent and goal-dependent retrieval of knowledge from memory

The (inferring) construction of information

The linearization of information that is cognitively provided

The translation of these prelinguistic cognitive structures into topically and grammatically appropriate sentences

The choice and inflection of words

The graphemic and finally grapho-motoric realization of written traces of behavior