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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"orthography"”.
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Cognitive Processes in Second Language Reading (Orthography, Cognition, Bilingualism)
The study investigated the effects of first language (L1) orthographic structures on cognitive processing in second language (L2) reading. More specifically, two aspects of L1 orthographic effects were examined: (a) the effects of the basic unit of representation on acoustic coding strategies, and …
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Processing SMS shortcuts : The contribution of phonology, orthography and semantics.
This thesis explores the question of whether unusual and visually irregular stimuli, such as SMS shortcuts (e.g., txt; text, l8r, later) are processed in the same way as familiar words. Early computational models such as the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) Model (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon & …
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The Xitsonga murmured speech sounds and their representations in the Xitsonga orthography
… of murmured speech sounds in the Xitsonga orthography. The qualitative approach was employed to examine the production of murmured speech sounds and their orthographic representations in Xitsonga. The analysis was based on data collected from interviews with speakers of the Xitsonga …
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Some Effects of Orthography on the Linguistic Knowledge of Modern Hebrew Speakers
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A comparative study of braille as a tactile orthography with the auditory orthography oval to teach reading to preliterate, English as an additional language, adult learners who have visual disabilities
… to investigate the affordances of the tactile orthography of braille in comparison with the newly developed auditory orthography of OVAL for teaching reading to preliterate, English as an Additional Language, adult learners who have visual disabilities. Seven adults who have visual …
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A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin
The late œuvre of Alexander N. Scriabin (Op. 60–Op. 74, 1910–1914) constitutes one of the most intriguing and perplexing bodies of early twentieth-century music, with analytic and theoretic approaches toward this body of work ranging from the extendedly tonal to set-theoretic approaches that place …
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
… of which it is a part and the language and orthography of its contents, and then provide a phonemic transcription and annotated English translation of the text together a complete glossary of terms and images of the manuscript. The detailed study of this one manuscript is used as an entry …
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The effects of L1 orthography on L2 word recognition: A study of American and Chinese learners of Japanese
Lexical judgment tests using Japanese kana (a syllabic script: hiragana and katakana) were performed on 45 English and 17 Chinese speaking learners of Japanese. Visual familiarity and word length in words were controlled to examine phonological/visual dependence in word recognition. Visual …
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To What Extent Does Learning a Sign Language Orthography (SLO) Support Deaf Children’s Bi-literacy Development? An Investigation into the Relationship Between SLO Acquisition and British Sign Language and English Development.
… the extent to which learning Sign Language Orthography (SLO), through an original intervention based on BSLwrite, enhances the development of biliteracy in deaf children in both British Sign Language (BSL) and English. This study aimed to investigate the connection between the acquisition of …
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Peskotomuhkati latuwewakon (Passamaquoddy language)
… we must first understand that the Passamaquoddy orthography is only a cut down version of the English orthography (using 17 characters plus an '). This cut down version of English characters with a Passamaquoddy grammar overlay is "still" English and can cause confusion for the adult learners of …
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An Investigation of the Role of Guided Reading in Proficient First Grade Reader's In-School Writing
… a written composition, student development of orthography, and the student use of literary language. Findings regarding the student view of what constituted a written composition included student experimentation with various forms of writing including a listing of facts on a given topic and …
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Learning to read: Effects of memory consolidation on orthographic and lexical learning
… Experiment 1 validated the artificial orthography paradigm by using fMRI to show the novel orthography activated similar neural regions to pseudowords written in familiar orthography. Comparing recently learned words and objects additionally highlighted the componential and holistic …
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Writing Lawa: Stimulating indigenous ownership of vernacular literacy through action research
… consist of three consecutive phases. A draft orthography would be prepared with the community. Community acceptance of this would allow a working orthography to be used by the teachers of Bo Luang school. The third phase would then be official regional or national recognition of a formal …
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The Mercati Fragments: A New Edition of Rahlfs 1098
… and paratextual evidence to study the scribal orthography exhibited in the fragments. In chapter 2, a palaeographical study of the writing is presented. This is followed by chapter 3 in which the orthography is studied. Chapter 4 deals with reasons why a new edition is necessary. In chapter 5, …
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"The Treatment of Consonants in the ""ambraser Heldenbuch"""
The orthography of the Early New High German period has occasionally been misinterpreted in the scholarship, and has consequently been described as being characterized by chaos, arbitrariness, and a proliferation of letters that has no phonological basis. This perceived chaos derives from attempts …
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Processing of Underlying and Surface Phonological Representations In Visual Word Recognition
… underlying representation was associated with orthography effect such that a phonological representation faithfully mapping the orthography-phonology correspondence was used for lexical access in visual word recognition.</p>
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Correlations Between Old Aramaic Inscriptions and the Aramaic Section of Daniel
… Description, Nature, Structure, Vocabulary, Orthography and Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax. The discussion of each of these sections has brought its corresponding subject into contact with the text of DA.</p> <p>Eight OA inscriptions dating from the ninth to the seventh centuries B.C. have …
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Foreign Language Learning Difficulties and Teaching Strategies
… they should also explicitly teach phonology/orthography and grammar, as these may be necessary for LD and at-risk students to understand and use the target language.</p>
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… assertions, while an examination of typography, orthography, interlingua, and theme in three novels by Canadian Mennonites provides the balance. Chapter one lays the theoretical framework for the investigation. It discusses: reader-response theory and the impossibility of accessing a stable …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… productions are concerned, it is argued that orthography does influence L2 sound productions because Polish learners seem to be negatively influenced by their native grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. It is concluded that it is important to differentiate between the influence of the L1 and …
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