Some Features of Diagnostic Research of Short Handwriting Objects Performed in the Armenian Language

Abstract

The article discusses a specific area of handwriting expertise – research of the completed short notes with deliberately changed handwriting. The author emphasizes that the expertise of these objects due to their small volume is a highly complex identification problem. The article pays special attention to short notes made in the Armenian language, highlighting and describing their specific features such as the degree of compression, slowing down the pace of movement with an unreasonable stop of the writing instrument, presence of blunt initial and final strokes. The slant is an essential factor in expert research of the short notes performed with the deliberate change of writing. Also, the change in the tempo leads to a sharp simplification of letter structures and incomplete execution of letter elements; simultaneously, complications of individual letters or their elements can be observed. The author analyzes all these statements in-depths using specific examples.

Keywords

• handwriting examination
• short notes
• deliberately changed handwriting
• manuscripts
• handwriting
• slant
• structure
• speed of movement