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Ravid, Dorit; Schiff, Rachel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Grammatical awareness of syntax and morphology is important in children's literacy development for both reading and writing. Hebrew, a language with rich inflectional morphology, marks nouns for plural number in conjunction with gender. Hebrew attributive adjectives agree with noun number and gender in the same noun phrase, while predicative…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Syntax
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Lisa Klasen; Sonja Ugen; Carole Dording; Michel Fayol; Constanze Weth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Inaudible syntactic markers are especially difficult to spell. This paper examines how 455 fourth graders spell silent French plural markers in a dictation with real and pseudowords after one year of formal French instruction (L2). The Generalized Linear Mixed Model analysis shows first that noun plural spelling (real and pseudo) is a strong…
Descriptors: Spelling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
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Bernstein, Stuart E.; Flipse, Jennifer L.; Jin, Ying; Odegard, Timothy N. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Common tests of morphological awareness measure both morphology and syntax by requiring participants to fit words and pseudowords into sentences by adding or removing affixes. We report the results of a study testing a new word level task. College students viewed transparent words (without phonological or orthographic shifts) and used a keyboard…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Syntax, College Students
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Berg, Kristian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and morphology. The main insights are: Consonant doubling is most regular at morpheme boundaries. It can be described in graphemic terms alone, i.e. without reference to…
Descriptors: English, Phonemes, Correlation, Morphology (Languages)