For those interested, here is another study concluding that handwriting (not about "cursive") had clear benefits to literacy learning, and beyond.
Interestingly, the study used Arabic letters and words, and the subjects were adult English speakers.
Authors are from Univ of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins Univ
Here: Article in abstract, and extensive list of references
from the conclusion (in abstract): "Our results clearly show that handwriting compared with nonmotor practice produces faster learning and greater generalization to untrained tasks than previously reported. Furthermore, only handwriting practice leads to learning of both motor and amodal symbolic letter representations."
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