Introduction to the special issue on the dynamics of written word production: methods, models and processing units

During the three past decades, written production models were essentially aimed at proposing a static view of the processes implemented to produce words. However, there are an increasing number of studies with the aim of better understanding the dynamics of the course of the writing process. These studies have raised a number of issues regarding the method used to study written word production and the factors that influence the dynamics of writing (type of orthography, transparency of the orthography, level of development, etc.). The scope of this special issue is to advance knowledge of the dynamics of written word production through empirical studies that address the above issues. This issue is based on the first Writing Word(s) Workshop (W3), which took place in July 2015 in Poitiers, France. The issue contains 9 articles by leading scholars in the field of the dynamics of written word production.