The acquisition of noun inflection in Northern Pame (Xi'iuy): Comparing whole word and minimal word accounts
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000920000586
Abstract: Abstract The study used naturalistic data on the production of nominal prefixes in the Otopamean language Northern Pame (autonym: Xi'iuy) to test Whole Word (constructivist) and Minimal Word (prosodic) theories for the acquisition of inflection.… read more here.
Keywords: whole word; northern pame; production; word ... See more keywords
Learning to spell in a language with transparent orthography: Distributional properties of orthography and whole-word lexical processing
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DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1275715
Abstract: We examined how whole-word lexical information and knowledge of distributional properties of orthography interact in children’s spelling. High- versus low-frequency words, which included inconsistently spelled segments occurring more or less frequently in the orthography, were… read more here.
Keywords: orthography; word; whole word; word lexical ... See more keywords