Orthography and Identity in Cameroon [PDF]
, 2001 The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography.
Bird, Steven
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Strategies for Representing Tone in African Writing Systems [PDF]
, 1999 Tone languages provide some interesting challenges for the designers of new orthographies. One approach is to omit tone marks, just as stress is not marked in English (zero marking).
Bird, Steven
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Cognitive flexibility predicts early reading skills [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceAn important aspect of learning to read is efficiency in accessing different kinds of linguistic information (orthographic, phonological, and semantic) about written words.
Anderson +66 more
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Developing an Orthography for Onya Darat (Western Borneo) Practical and Theoretical Considerations [PDF]
, 2009 Onya Darat is a language spoken, with great dialectal variation, in the interiorof western Borneo. It is the southernmost member of Land Dayak, a branchof the Austronesian language family.
Tadmor, U. (Uri)
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Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]
, 2006 This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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Learning words in a new language: orthography doesn't always help [PDF]
, 2013 Previous studies have shown that orthography is activated during speech processing and that it may have positive and negative effects for non-native listeners.
Escudero, Paola +2 more
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Multi-Script Morphological Transducers And Transcribers For Seven Turkic Languages [PDF]
, 2020 This paper describes ongoing work to augment morphological transducers for seven Turkic languages with support for multiple scripts each, as well as respective IPA transcription systems.
Kuyrukçu, O. +2 more
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The influence of orthography on phonemic knowledge: An experimental investigation on German and Persian [PDF]
, 2019 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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The role of word frequency and morpho-orthography in agreement processing
, 2020 Agreement attraction in comprehension (when an ungrammatical verb is read quickly if preceded by a feature-matching local noun) is well described by a cue-based retrieval framework. This suggests a role for lexical retrieval in attraction.
Brehm, L., Christianson, K., Hussey, E.
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Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults [PDF]
, 2018 Published online: 28 Mar 2018According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling ...
Barr, Polly +4 more
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