“Textisms” are semi-standardized abbreviations and conventions uses in SMS text messaging. Students in the fourth and fifth grades (N = 136) were exposed to words on a spelling list as correctly-spelled words, incorrectly-spelled words, or “textisms” to determine whether short term exposure to “textisms” decreased spelling performance for elementary aged children. Multivariate ANOVA found expos...

Background:There have been relatively few studies concernedwith the treatment of spelling deficits. Among these, there have been a small number that have targeted specific components of the spelling process. Although most of these studies report success using treatments that involve repeated spelling and/or copy, the results have been mixed, especially as concerns the generalisation of treatmen...

Correct spelling is a learned performance, but effective and preferred procedures to develop accurate spelling in young children have not been adequately described. We evaluated the effectiveness of two strategies for teaching spelling to 10 elementary students of typical development. In the traditional rehearse and test method commonly used in elementary classrooms, we gave students a list of ...

This study investigated the relations of three aspects of morphological awareness to word recognition and spelling skills of Dutch speaking children. Tasks of inflectional and derivational morphology and lexical compounding, as well as measures of phonological awareness, vocabulary and mathematics were administered to 104 first graders (mean age 6 years, 11 months) and 112 sixth graders (mean a...

Choosing between alternative spellings for sounds can be difficult for even experienced spellers. We examined the factors that influence adults’ choices in one such case: singleversus double-letter spellings of medial consonants in English. The major systematic influence on the choice between medial singletons and doublets has been thought to be phonological context: whether the preceding vowel...

Spelling correction is an important component of any system for processing text. Agglutinative languages such as Turkish or Finnish, differ from languages like English in the way lexical forms are generated. Typical nominal or a verbal root may generate thousands (or even millions) of valid forms which never appear in the dictionary. For instance, we can give the following (rather exaggerated) ...

With written Swiss German becoming more popular in everyday use, it has become a target for text processing. The absence of a standard orthography and the variety of dialects, however, lead to a vast variation in different spellings which makes this task difficult. We built a system based on weighted transducers that recognizes over 90% of the tokens in certain texts. Weights ensure preferring ...

Since the first descriptions of children with congenital word blindness or dyslexia, the proper criteria for diagnosis of dyslexia have been debated. Issues in this debate concern, among others, the role of underlying causes of reading and spelling and the use of a discrepancy between reading ability and intelligence. This chapter will consider recent evidence from family risk studies of dyslex...

Large quantities of spelling variation in corpora, such as that found in Early Modern English, can cause significant problems for corpus linguistic tools and methods. Having texts with standardised spelling is key to making such tools and methods accurate and meaningful in their analysis. Gaining access to such versions of texts can be problematic however, and manual standardisation of the text...

Previous research has suggested that children in the early grades of primary school do not have much awareness of morphemes. In this study, a priming paradigm was used to try to detect early signs of morphological representation of stems through a spelling task presented to Portuguese children (N = 805; age range 6–9 years). Primes shared the stem with the targets and contained well-articulated...