Writing Pictures and Painting Words: The Inherent Hybridity of Maya Writing
The tendency to simplify the richness and inherent hybridity of writing systems is apparent in considerations of the Maya hieroglyphic script. Orthodox approaches to Maya writing often focus exclusively on its linguistic dimensions; considerations of how
Kathryn Marie Hudson, John S. Henderson
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The influence of orthography on phonemic knowledge: An experimental investigation on German and Persian [PDF]
This study investigated whether the phonological representation of a word is modulated by its orthographic representation in case of a mismatch between the two representations.
Indefrey, P. +2 more
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WRITING PROFICIENCY IN TRANSPARENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: WHEN DO ROMANIAN CHILDREN START TO SPELL CORRECTLY? [PDF]
. Spelling abilities of elementary and middle school students can vary across languages. One major variable that influences students’ spelling performance is the degree of orthographic regularity of their native language.
DACIAN DORIN DOLEAN, DANIEL ANDRONACHE
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Cross-modal associations in synaesthesia: vowel colours in the ear of the beholder [PDF]
Human speech conveys many forms of information, but for some exceptional individuals (synaesthetes), listening to speech sounds can automatically induce visual percepts such as colours.
Miller, Sam R. +3 more
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Comparative historical development of Prekmurje spelling
This article presents the historical development of Prekmurje spelling from its beginnings to the First World War. It focuses on graphemes not in the Latin alphabet whose representation posed a major problem for writers.
Előd Dudás
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New Grapheme Generation Rules for Two-Stage Modelbased Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
The precise conversion of arbitrary text into its corresponding phoneme sequence (grapheme-to-phoneme or G2P conversion) is implemented in speech synthesis and recognition, pronunciation learning software, spoken term detection and spoken document ...
Seng Kheang +3 more
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Why is nonword reading so variable in adult skilled readers? [PDF]
When the task is reading nonwords aloud, skilled adult readers are very variable in the responses they produce: a nonword can evoke as many as 24 different responses in a group of such readers. Why is nonword reading so variable?
Max Coltheart, Anastasia Ulicheva
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Proposition de hiérarchisation des 45 graphèmes de base de l’orthographe du français
Le système graphémique du français est un plurisystème mixte qui repose sur de solides fondations phonographiques tout en étant caractérisé par de nombreuses spécificités sémiographiques qui en font toute la complexité (Cogis, 2005 ; Jaffré, 2005).
Pérez Manuel
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Spanish-speaking developmental dyslexics are mainly characterized by poor reading fluency. One reason for this lack of fluency could be a difficulty in creating and accessing lexical representations, because, as the self-teaching theory suggest, it is ...
Paz eSuárez-Coalla +2 more
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Grapheme coding in L2: How do L2 learners process new graphemes? [PDF]
Grapheme coding was examined in French Grade 6 and Grade 8 children and adults who learned English as a second language (L2). In Experiments 1 and 2, three conditions were compared in a letter detection task in L2: (1) simple grapheme (i.e., detect “a” in black); (2) complex language-shared grapheme (i.e., “a” in brain) and (3) complex L2-specific ...
Commissaire, Eva +2 more
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