Pub Date : 2019-06-24DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2019.1625478
Sheila Cira Chung, Xi Chen, Eva Commissaire, Klaudia Krenca, S. Deacon
The self-teaching hypothesis (Share [1995]. Phonological recoding and self-teaching: Sine qua non of reading acquisition. Cognition, 55, 151–218) proposes that readers acquire word-specific orthogr...
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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2019.1662533
Lay Wah Lee, Hui Min Low, Sien Sut Lee
As there is still debate on whether Ehri’s phase theory of word development is relevant to more transparent orthographies, this investigation explores the alphabetic connections in the memory of ea...
{"title":"Exploring phoneme-grapheme connections in Malay word building","authors":"Lay Wah Lee, Hui Min Low, Sien Sut Lee","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2019.1662533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2019.1662533","url":null,"abstract":"As there is still debate on whether Ehri’s phase theory of word development is relevant to more transparent orthographies, this investigation explores the alphabetic connections in the memory of ea...","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2019.1662533","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45291881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1719273
Styliani N. Tsesmeli
The study aimed to investigate developmental changes in the spelling performance of derivational suffixes by 188 Greek school children (ages: 7–14 ½) of typical development, along with effects of t...
{"title":"Developmental changes in the spelling of derivational suffixes by typically developing Greek children: effects of transparency, lexicality, letter length and frequency","authors":"Styliani N. Tsesmeli","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1719273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1719273","url":null,"abstract":"The study aimed to investigate developmental changes in the spelling performance of derivational suffixes by 188 Greek school children (ages: 7–14 ½) of typical development, along with effects of t...","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1719273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49592027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2020.1724239
M. Valério, S. Ferrara
Rebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotamia (cuneiform), China, Mesoamerica (Maya), Egypt, and scripts which may have been created through exposu...
{"title":"Rebus and acrophony in invented writing","authors":"M. Valério, S. Ferrara","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2020.1724239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2020.1724239","url":null,"abstract":"Rebus and acrophony are crucial in the development of ancient invented scripts from Mesopotamia (cuneiform), China, Mesoamerica (Maya), Egypt, and scripts which may have been created through exposu...","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2020.1724239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41510327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2019.1697412
D. Meletis
The grapheme appears to be a central concept of grapholinguistics. However, there is no consensus on how it should be defined. Some use the concept of grapheme in their work but fail to give a defi...
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2019.1588835
Małgorzata Zadka
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to show that the structure of Linear B inscriptions was both of semasiographic and phonographic nature. Despite the indisputable role of the syllabographic signs, they should be treated neither as a dominant element in the inscriptions nor as the indicator of the general principle in the texts. Analysis of the writing strategies in the Linear B documents has shown that the texts were intended to be recognised as an overall communicate instead of to be read phonetically sign by sign. Such a strategy not only explains the inconsistent use of ideograms or so-called double-writing but also indicates that the main principle of the inscriptions was non-linear and non-linguistic but spatial and based on meaning.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2018.1519482
J. Jeong, L. Katz, Yang Lee
ABSTRACT The differences of writing systems are reflected in the processing of the languages in question. Word recognition constrained by writing systems has been attended by various theories. By analysing the recognition processes of Korean and Chinese words in this study, two of theories, the orthographic depth hypothesis (ODH) and the two-dimensional orthography of phonology and morphology (OPM) were compared. The ODH predicted that word recognition in the case of transparent orthography between sound and spelling is processed by grapheme-phoneme decoding to show the phonological effect in a lexical task. Since the OPM posits two independent dimensions of phonology and morphology, it can explain the morphological effect which is independent of the phonological effect and which is disregarded by the ODH. Testing morphological intrusion in a pronunciation-matching task, this study confirmed that the larger effect on Chinese in Experiment 2 compared with Korean in Experiment 1 supported the OPM. However, further discussion suggests that the ODH is not rejected, but regarded to be subordinate to the OPM. The former was posited only on one dimension of phonological orthography, and the latter both on phonology and on morphology.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2018.1536015
Satu-Maarit Frangou, H. Ruokamo, T. Parviainen, J. Wikgren
ABSTRACT Digitalisation has changed and broadened the ways people write. In higher education, typing is a common practice both for note-taking and for completing written assignments, relegating pen and paper to the last millennium. The cognitive and educational implications of this change, however, require further investigation. We assessed how three different methods of writing short stories affect students’ subsequent memory retrieval. In a within-subjects design, Finnish students (n = 31) from the University of Lapland transcribed dictated stories using a pencil, a computer keyboard and a virtual touchscreen keyboard. The degree of recollection for each writing task was analysed 30 min after the session and then one week later. The main result is that handwriting led to significantly better recollection after both time delays. This corroborates and extends the findings reported in previous studies, and it calls for further research on writing methods and long-term memory. Additionally, as writing modality seems to affect recollection, reconsideration of instruction practices in higher education is suggested. Typing is the students’ main method of writing and better typing competence can yield multiple benefits for them, including facilitating their academic work and enhancing the recollection of their own work.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2018.1540375
Afnan Khoury-Metanis, Ibrahim A. Asadi, A. Khateb
ABSTRACT Previous research has attempted to characterise the contribution of motor, cognitive, and linguistic variables to handwriting. In this study, we aimed at assessing the contribution of basic linguistic skills (namely phonological processing, orthographic knowledge and morphology awareness) to the three dimensions of handwriting (i.e. legibility, speed and spelling) in the same participants. For this purpose, 200 normally developing fifth-grade children, in whom motor variables are hypothesised to play little role in handwriting, participated in this study. Handwriting (text copy and dictation) and other linguistic measures (testing phonology, orthography and morphology) were subjected to regression analyses. These showed that the same linguistic measures contributed differently to the various dimensions of handwriting and explained 26%, 13% and 57% of the variance in legibility, speed and spelling respectively. These findings indicated that legibility and speed were relatively poorly explained and emphasise the need to include other linguistic and non-linguistic variables in the study of handwriting in this age group. Future research on Arabic should developmentally investigate handwriting from earlier stages of skill acquisition and assess the contribution of linguistic, cognitive and motor factors, not only to text copy and dictation but also to other tasks such as free writing and written expression.
{"title":"The contribution of basic linguistic skills to handwriting among fifth-grade Arabic-speaking children","authors":"Afnan Khoury-Metanis, Ibrahim A. Asadi, A. Khateb","doi":"10.1080/17586801.2018.1540375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17586801.2018.1540375","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous research has attempted to characterise the contribution of motor, cognitive, and linguistic variables to handwriting. In this study, we aimed at assessing the contribution of basic linguistic skills (namely phonological processing, orthographic knowledge and morphology awareness) to the three dimensions of handwriting (i.e. legibility, speed and spelling) in the same participants. For this purpose, 200 normally developing fifth-grade children, in whom motor variables are hypothesised to play little role in handwriting, participated in this study. Handwriting (text copy and dictation) and other linguistic measures (testing phonology, orthography and morphology) were subjected to regression analyses. These showed that the same linguistic measures contributed differently to the various dimensions of handwriting and explained 26%, 13% and 57% of the variance in legibility, speed and spelling respectively. These findings indicated that legibility and speed were relatively poorly explained and emphasise the need to include other linguistic and non-linguistic variables in the study of handwriting in this age group. Future research on Arabic should developmentally investigate handwriting from earlier stages of skill acquisition and assess the contribution of linguistic, cognitive and motor factors, not only to text copy and dictation but also to other tasks such as free writing and written expression.","PeriodicalId":39225,"journal":{"name":"Writing Systems Research","volume":"10 1","pages":"110 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17586801.2018.1540375","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43160927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17586801.2018.1493409
Seth Vitrano-Wilson, Ryan Gehrmann, C. Miller, Cheung Xaiyavong
ABSTRACT Many scripts in Southeast Asia have developed ways of marking tone. When adapting such scripts to write non-tonal languages, language communities often find other uses for these symbols. The case of Cado, an Austroasiatic language of the Katuic sub-branch in Vietnam and Laos, is particularly striking in that they use tone marks as vowel diacritics in two different scripts. Because Cado speakers live on both sides of the Vietnamese-Lao border, they have chosen to use two separate writing systems based on their respective national languages. This paper presents preliminary orthographies for Cado in the Roman and Lao scripts, based on the Vietnamese and Lao orthographies. Cado has no phonation contrast, but it does retain vowel length contrast. Both Cado orthographies adapt tone marks from the Vietnamese and Lao orthographies to distinguish either vowel length or vowel quality respectively. The phonetic motivation for this cross-categorical use of tone marks is discussed, and examples of other orthographies in Southeast Asia that adapt tone marks and other symbols beyond their traditional phonetic category are given and compared with Cado.
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