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Who Are the Noisiest Neighbors in the Hood? Using Error Analyses to Study the Acquisition of Letter-Position Processing
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Marinus, Eva; Kezilas, Yvette; Kohnen, Saskia; Robidoux, Serje; Castles, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
This research examines the acquisition of letter-position processing. Study 1 investigated letter-position processing in Grades 1-6 and adult readers, using the occurrence of specific error types as the outcome measure. Between Grades 1 and 2, there was a shift from making more other-word to making more letter-position errors. This shift was a…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
The Role of Phonological Awareness in Biliteracy Acquisition among Hong Kong Chinese Kindergarteners Who Learn English-as-a-Second Language (ESL)
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Yeung, Susanna S.; Ganotice, Fraide A. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
Phonological awareness has been repeatedly reported as important for learning to read in different orthographies. It is important to understand what specific levels of phonological awareness are involved in Chinese and English for Chinese children who learn English-as-a-second-language (ESL). Measures of phonological awareness, word reading,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonological Awareness, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Grain Size in Script and Teaching: Literacy Acquisition in Ge'ez and Latin
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Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun; Kurvers, Jeanne; Kroon, Sjaak – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The study investigated reading in four African languages that use either syllabic Ge'ez (Tigrinya and Tigre languages) or alphabetic Latin scripts (Kunama and Saho). A sample of 385 Grade 1 children were given letter knowledge, word reading, and spelling tasks to investigate differences at the script and language levels. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Reading Instruction, Syllables
EVA - A Textual Data Processing Tool.
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Jakopin, Primoz – 1995
EVA, a text processing tool designed to be self-contained and useful for a variety of languages, is described briefly, and its extensive coded character set is illustrated. Features, specifications, and database functions are noted. Its application in development of a Slovenian literary dictionary is also described. (MSE)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Dictionaries
Tagging a Highly Inflected Language (Non-English, Non-Latin Alphabet, No Morpho Component).
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Paskaleva, Elena; Zaharieva, Bojanka – 1995
This paper describes a computerized system for tagging language corpora that accommodates the special conditions in Bulgarian language research (notably, lack of advanced technology and corresponding user knowledge). SUPERLINGUA has been developed in the DOS environment with consideration for these conditions. Information on product use, users,…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Discourse Analysis
A Bibliography of Philippine Linguistics. Special Monograph Issue, Number 39.
Johnson, Rex E., Comp. – 1996
The bibliography, a compilation of earlier works, gives basic bibliographic information (author/editor, title, source, publication date) for 3,908 books, articles, essays, and dissertations on Philippine linguistics dating back to the seventeenth century. Citations are listed alphabetically. An index cross-references the citations by subject area…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis