Spelling deficits have repeatedly been observed in children with dyslexia. However, the few studies addressing this issue in dyslexic adults have reported contradictory results. We investigated whether Spanish dyslexics show spelling deficits in adulthood and which components of the writing production process might be impaired in developmental dyslexia. In order to evaluate the involvement of t...

In two experiments, we examined effects on spelling of reading and of reproducing correctly and incorrectly spelled words. Reading correctly and incorrectly spelled words influenced later spelling accuracy for those same words. Reproducing the spelling of words did not have any effects on later spelling accuracy beyond those produced by reading the words. However, reproducing a correctly spelle...

This study sought to examine whether summer learning loss occurs in spelling and word reading in a population of 77 primary school aged children aged between 5 and 10 years (37 boys, mean age 100 months, SD 18 months, and 40 girls mean age 103 months, SD 16 months) attending three schools in areas of low socioeconomic status in Scotland and the North East of England. Word reading and spelling w...

The noisy channel model has been applied to a wide range of problems, including spelling correction. These models consist of two components: a source model and a channel model. Very little research has gone into improving the channel model for spelling correction. This paper describes a new channel model for spelling correction, based on generic string to string edits. Using this model gives si...

This paper describes details of NTOU Chinese spelling check system participating in CLP2014 Bakeoff. Confusion sets were expanded by using two language resources, Shuowen and Four-Corner codes. A new method to find spelling errors in legal multi-character words was proposed. Comparison of sentence generation probabilities is the main information for error detection and correction. A rulebased c...

This chapter reviews research on spelling abilities in older adults, an area of psychological research that has received little attention. Of the few studies conducted, the results have demonstrated an age-linked asymmetry between the detection and retrieval of spelling (MacKay & Abrams, 1998; MacKay, Abrams, & Pedroza, 1999): Older adults are able to detect words as either correctly spelled or...