Rebecca Treiman and Brett Kessler
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199907977
- eISBN:
- 9780190228422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199907977.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter discusses how children deal with the complexities in alphabetic writing systems. Many such systems include conditioned rules: One spelling of a phoneme is likely to occur in certain ...
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This chapter discusses how children deal with the complexities in alphabetic writing systems. Many such systems include conditioned rules: One spelling of a phoneme is likely to occur in certain contexts and another spelling is more likely in other contexts. The chapter reviews research on how children learn about different types of conditioning. For example, it examines how the choice among potential spellings for a vowel is affected by the consonants in the syllable’s onset or coda or by the stress of the syllable and whether rhymes have a special status. Research shows that spellers have more difficulty in cases in which appeals to context don’t help—unconditioned inconsistencies—than with conditioned spellings. The chapter also considers how children consider morphology in deciding among possible spellings and how they deal with digraphs (two-letter spellings) and homography (cases in which a spelling represents more than one phoneme).Less
This chapter discusses how children deal with the complexities in alphabetic writing systems. Many such systems include conditioned rules: One spelling of a phoneme is likely to occur in certain contexts and another spelling is more likely in other contexts. The chapter reviews research on how children learn about different types of conditioning. For example, it examines how the choice among potential spellings for a vowel is affected by the consonants in the syllable’s onset or coda or by the stress of the syllable and whether rhymes have a special status. Research shows that spellers have more difficulty in cases in which appeals to context don’t help—unconditioned inconsistencies—than with conditioned spellings. The chapter also considers how children consider morphology in deciding among possible spellings and how they deal with digraphs (two-letter spellings) and homography (cases in which a spelling represents more than one phoneme).
Gabriele Stein
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199683192
- eISBN:
- 9780191763205
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199683192.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Lexicography
The chapter provides an overview of Elyot’s compilation based upon his own comments, and then concentrates on the lexicographical principles that characterize his particular approach. His word ...
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The chapter provides an overview of Elyot’s compilation based upon his own comments, and then concentrates on the lexicographical principles that characterize his particular approach. His word selection, his treatment of homographs and their lexicographical arrangement are described. The study of his grammatical framework reveals the use of some terms which, according to the OED, are first found in his dictionary. His descriptive analyses of word-formations are highlighted and a detailed account is given of his sources.Less
The chapter provides an overview of Elyot’s compilation based upon his own comments, and then concentrates on the lexicographical principles that characterize his particular approach. His word selection, his treatment of homographs and their lexicographical arrangement are described. The study of his grammatical framework reveals the use of some terms which, according to the OED, are first found in his dictionary. His descriptive analyses of word-formations are highlighted and a detailed account is given of his sources.
