The Dutch spelling system, like other European spelling systems, represents a certain balance between preserving the spelling of morphemes (the morphological principle) and obeying letter-to-sound regularities (the phonological principle). We present experimental results with artificial learners that show a competition effect between the two principles: adhering more to one principle leads to m...

• AbstrAct Compactness and convexity have been shown to represent important principles in music, reflecting a notion of consonance in scales and chords, and have been successfully applied to well-known problems from music research. In this paper, the notion of compactness is applied to the problem of pitch spelling. Pitch spelling addresses the question of how to derive traditional score notati...

elegiac poetry written about the ahlolbeit (the holy prophet’s household) in khuzestani arabic is a rich folklore source. this poetic genre is beautiful and appealing and almost comprehensible for its audience. however, it is mysteriously difficult for all to read. this often leads to misunderstandings. the incomprehensibility of khuzestani arabic may be due to different reasons. for example,...

BACKGROUND Developmental reading problems show strong persistence across the school years; less is known about poor readers' later progress in literacy skills. METHOD Poor (n = 42) and normally developing readers (n = 86) tested in adolescence (ages 14/15 years) in the Isle of Wight epidemiological studies were re-contacted at mid-life (ages 44/45 years). Participants completed a spelling tes...

Despite the increasing significance of written communication, there is limited research into spelling therapy for adults with acquired dysgraphia. Existing studies have typically measured spelling accuracy as an outcome, although speed may also be important for functional writing. As spelling is relatively slow, effortful and prone to errors in people with dysgraphia, minimising errors within t...

Background: In this study, the question of whether auditory training for children with a reading and spelling disorder and a central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) can improve spelling performance is investigated. The training apparatus was the Audiva Company‘s DichoTrainer. Method: Dichotic discrimination, auditory/kinaesthetic perception and behavioral strengths and peculiarities as well...

In a cross-sectional study, we investigated the development of fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of learning Arabic. The goals of our study were to: 1) validate suitable measures for fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of learning Arabic; 2) trace the developmental course of the relationship between fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of lear...

Spelling speech recognition can be applied for several purposes including enhancement of speech recognition systems and implementation of name retrieval systems. This paper presents a Thai spelling analysis to develop a Thai spelling speech recognizer. The Thai phonetic characteristics, alphabet system and spelling methods have been analyzed. As a training resource, two alternative corpora, a s...